A process-centered software engineering environment using ontologies

In order to build up a process-centered software engineering environment us ing ontologies, we present a methodology to manually construct the followin g ontolopies: an object ontology constructed based on constituent elements to make up objects (products), and a process ontology constructed based on the relationships between inputs and outputs. Afterwards, using the constru cted ontologies, the environment generates software process plans good for user queries, with both user interaction and constraints satisfaction by th e Generate and Test paradigm. Furthermore, case studies show us that the en vironment works well in generating software process plans good for a query about the intermediate stage of development, between basic design and detai led design.