Ambient Software Engineering Group Presenter: Dr. Juergen Rilling,
Concordia University
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
E-mail: [email protected]
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”?
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