Ontology-based CMMI Requirements Management Web Services for Software Maintenance

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Nowadays, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is becoming more and more important in the software industry, but it often takes a large amount of effort, time and cost to introduce CMMI. This paper focuses on Requirements Management (REQM) process area of CMMI to develop a CMMI-supported tool with the Web services architecture. Owing to the fact that establishing and maintaining the bi-directional traceability among requirements are a time-consuming and complex task; therefore, in order to establish and maintain the bi-directional traceability among requirements more effectively, this paper utilizes ontology and fuzzy inference mechanism to develop a requirement trace service that can automatically generate horizontal and vertical traceability relationships. From the experimental results, this proposed Web services architecture can operate independently; meanwhile, it also can be extended to other process areas of CMMI.