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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 Engineering
• 1. Ambient Software Engineering
• 2. Application
• 2. Application
• 3. Research Question
• 3. Research Question

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Ambient Environment - Artifacts

Documents Subversion 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 Engineering
• 1. Ambient Software Engineering
• 2. Application
• 2. Application
• 3. Research Question
• 3. 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 Engineering
• 1. Ambient Software Engineering
• 2. Application
• 2. Application
• 3. Research Question
• 3. 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”?