SWOT Analysis of Ontology Driven Software Engineering

In the past decade offshoring and outsourcing the software development phenomenon has been undeniably a key software engineering practice. The need to adapt to this new reality is obvious and is bound to have a long lasting influence on the software industry. This fosters the industry and researchers to look for intelligent supporting technologies and tools that can help interconnect and exchange Software Engineering knowledge. A rising trend to exploit ontologies for sharing and reusing information across web is well recognized. We examine the strategic alignment of ontologies to Software Engineering where the former can be used to improve and assist in intelligent software development process. The SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis is presented giving an insight to the use of ontologies to enrich and enhance Software Engineering processes.