Semantically Enhanced Software Documentation Processes

Authors

  • Werner Klieber
  • Michael Granitzer
  • Mansuet Gaisbauer
  • Klaus Tochtermann

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55630/sjc.2010.4.243-262

Keywords:

Documentation, Semantics, Software Engineering

Abstract

High-quality software documentation is a substantial issue for understanding software systems. Shorter time-to-market software cycles increase the importance of automatism for keeping the documentation up to date. In this paper, we describe the automatic support of the software documentation process using semantic technologies. We introduce a software documentation ontology as an underlying knowledge base. The defined ontology is populated automatically by analysing source code, software documentation and code execution. Through selected results we demonstrate that the use of such semantic systems can support software documentation processes efficiently.

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Published

2010-07-20

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