Ambient Software Engineering Group Presenter: Dr. Juergen Rilling,

Concordia University

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

E-mail: rilling@cse.concordia.ca

Ambient = Seamless integration of heterogeneous systems in an open and flexible

way, while providing the means for adaptivity and context-awareness

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Agenda

1. Ambient Software Engineering1. Ambient Software Engineering

2. Application2. Application

3. Research Question3. Research Question

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Ambient Environment - Artifacts

DocumentsSubversion

Source

Code

Process

Other Artifacts

Change logs

feature

requests

Ambient

Environment

Highlights

• Conceptualized software maintenance process

• Developed an Ambient Software Process Support Environment.

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Applications

(Re-) establish traceability among artifacts to support comprehension

Artifact analysis, e.g., source code, document analysis

Process support through knowledge integration

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IDE Integration

Highlights• Ambient IDE integration – knowledge and resources become an integrated part

• Process guidance and maintenance/development activities are integrated

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Agenda

1. Ambient Software Engineering1. Ambient Software Engineering

2. Application2. Application

3. Research Question3. Research Question

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Applications - Artifact Analysis

Artifact Analysis:

•Unified ontological representation for the various artifacts.

•Use existing ontology reasoners to infer knowledge to support

• Semantic queries at the source code level

• Document analysis:

• Combine Natural Language Processing (NLP) and domain knowledge to

extract information.

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Applications - Traceability

Traceability:

Motivation:

• Discover/re-establish traceability links among existing and new artifacts through:

• Ontology alignment and merging.

• Shared concepts.

• Semantic queries across ontologies.

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Agenda

1. Ambient Software Engineering1. Ambient Software Engineering

2. Application2. Application

3. Research Question3. Research Question

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Research Questions

Is static analysis enough to deal with

cultural and technology changes in

software engineering?

Why don’t we seem to make any real

progress – beyond “patching”?