Approaches used to Verify and Validate a Software Testing Ontology as an Artifact
Luis A. Olsina, Guido Tebes, Denis Peppino, Pablo Becker · 2020 IEEE Congreso Bienal de Argentina (ARGENCON) · 2020
Verification and Validation (V&V) are undoubtedly two key aspects of the artifact construction process. V&V entails activities, methods, tools, and ultimately strategies for ensuring quality when developing artifacts. Software engineering production lines, stakeholders and researchers produce diverse artifacts. For example, researchers may build ontologies, which can be both conceptualized and implemented artifacts. Ontologies are playing a central role in many application domains in particular, as well as in software and knowledge engineering disciplines in general. To show the applicability of V&V approaches, this work considers a software testing ontology as an artifact. This was developed following the Design Science Research methodology in the context of a layered ontological architecture. This paper illustrates the V&V approaches used, involving activities and methods for static and dynamic testing, evaluation and assessment. It addresses V&V approaches for the ontology conceptualization, as well as a functional dynamic testing method for its implementation.