Use of ontologies in software engineering

Abstract

This paper surveys the role ontologies might play in the whole software development life cycle. Use of ontologies in each phase of software development yields competitive advantage over traditional approach enabling greater information sharing and reuse. In this survey paper, we present a concise description of various ontology-based approaches in Software Engineering ordered by their position in the Software Engineering life cycle. We also report ontology editor tool Protege as part of our survey.