A Well-Founded Software Process Behavior Ontology to Support Business Goals Monitoring in High Maturity Software Organizations

Organizations define strategies and establish business goals aiming to be competitive. The process performance analysis supports goals monitoring, allowing to detect and to treat threats to goals achievement. In this context, measurement is essential. The collected data for measures are used to analyze the process performance and to guide informed decisions that lead to the achievement of business and technical goals. For software organizations, the process performance analysis is a high maturity practice. In this context, although there are several standards that address the importance of software measurement and its use in process performance analysis, the vocabulary used by these standards concerning software measurement is diverse. In order to establish a conceptualization regarding this domain, we developed a Software Measurement Ontology (SMO), grounded in the Unified Foundational Ontology. In this paper, we present a fragment of SMO with focus on software process behavior analysis.