DsdK: An Ontology-Based System to Explore Distributed Software Development Experiments

In the past decade, there was a notably significant raise in the adoption of the Distributed Software Development approach. This so-called approach has brought a lot of competitive advantages, as well as new challenges, such as communication and sharing of information among distributed teams. In this scenario, the use of the ontology concept simplifies and normalizes the teams´ understanding of shared information and eases the communication between them. The purpose of this research is to develop a tool based in a specific ontology for DSD environments. This tool assists distributed teams with distributed software development problems, proposing the techniques and best practices to solve these problems.