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An Ontology to Understand Programming Cocktails
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An ever-growing landscape of programming technologies
(tools, languages, libraries and frameworks) has rapidly
become the norm in many domains of computer programming—
Web Development being the most noticeable example. The
concurrent use of many compartmentalised technologies has
advantages: it allows for flexibility in implementation, while
also improving reusability. On the other hand, this proliferation
tends to create convoluted development workflows that must be
(painstakingly) planned, managed and maintained. The combination
of multiple languages, libraries, frameworks and tools
(Ingredients) in a single project effectively forms a Programming
Cocktail, that can rapidly become cognitive and financially
onerous. Aiming at understanding these complex situations, an
ontology was created to provide a formal and structured analysis
of these cocktails. It emerged from a survey of technologies that
several companies are currently using to develop their systems,
and aims to provide support for better understanding, classifying
and characterising Programming Cocktails. This paper presents
not only the ontology itself, but also the consequent knowledge
that was constructed and structured through its development.
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Ontology Programming Cocktails Software Development Programming Technologies Konwledge Construction
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IEEE