A Semantic Data Model for the Development of Secure and Valuable Software

Abstract

IT security is a crucial non-functional software requirement. Nevertheless, there are several other aspects that a softwares’ market success depends on. Therefore, it is vital that during the development process software developers consider different disciplines needs that essentially add value when going to market such as usability and socio-economics. The project CUES addresses these aspects by developing an interdisciplinary and integrated guidance tool, called the Wizard. The Wizard is designed to support software developers with interdisciplinary knowledge during the software development processes. The core of the Wizard builds a knowledge base, which is based on a semantic data model. While the semantic data model is finished, the Wizard is still undergoing development in the CUES project and is not yet complete. This paper presents the semantic data model as a first project result and as the core element of theWizard. The proposed data model stores knowledge about software development processes, methods and tools in order to derive problems and corresponding solutions which may occur in real software development processes.