TestTDO's v1.3 Terms, Properties, Relationships and Axioms -- A Top-Domain Software Testing Ontology

TL;DR

This paper details the comprehensive specification of TestTDO v1.3, a top-domain software testing ontology, within a four-layered ontological architecture, enhancing semantic clarity and inter-level relationships for improved testing domain modeling.

Contribution

It introduces the updated TestTDO v1.3 ontology, detailing its terms, properties, relationships, and axioms within a four-layered architecture, and explains its semantic enrichment mechanisms.

Findings

TestTDO v1.3 includes new terms and relationships from core ontologies.

The ontology is integrated into a four-layered architecture for better domain modeling.

Semantic enrichment via stereotypes enhances ontology expressiveness.

Abstract

The present preprint specifies and defines all Terms, Properties, Relationships and Axioms of TestTDO (software Testing Top-Domain Ontology) v1.3, which is a slightly updated version of its predecessor, TestTDO v1.2. TestTDO is a top-domain ontology built in the context of a four-layered ontological architecture named FCD-OntoArch (Foundational, Core, and Domain Ontological Architecture for Sciences). This is a four-layered ontological architecture, which considers Foundational, Core, Domain and Instance levels. In turn, the domain level is split down in two sub-levels, namely: Top-domain and Low-domain ontological levels. Ontologies at the same level can be related to each other, except for the foundational level where only the ThingFO ontology is found. In addition, ontologies' terms and relationships at lower levels can be semantically enriched by ontologies' terms properties and relationships from the higher levels. Some TestTDO's terms and are extended primarily from SituationCO (Situation Core Ontology), and ProcessCO (Process Core Ontology) concepts. Stereotypes are the mechanism used for enriching TestTDO terms. Note that annotations of updates from the previous version (v1.2) to the current one (v1.3) can be found in Appendix A.