The document discusses the alm istack project aimed at enhancing application lifecycle management (ALM) using linked data, focusing on integration with existing open-source tools and addressing specific challenges in data integration. It outlines the goals of developing a linked data platform, creating a REST API for enterprise application integration, and improving OSLC ontology. Additionally, the document highlights the project's funding source and future work to address integration requirements in the software development lifecycle.

1. ALM iStack – Application Lifecycle Management
using Linked Data
Application Lifecycle Management
Background and Motivation
Open Service Lifecycle Collaboration
ALM iStack
ALM iStack Bugzilla Adapter
o Proof-Of-Concept for real work ALM integration use case
o Improvements to OSLC ontology (OSLC+)
o Linked Data Platform Middleware
oLDP server
oLDP client
oIdentity Management Service
o Linked Data Platform Adapter for Bugziila
Nandana Mihindulukasooriya
Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
nmihindu@fi.upm.es
Future Work
To investigate and find solutions for challenging requirements of application integration using Linked Data. Most of these requirements need improvements to
Liked Data Platform protocol speciation or some profile specifications built on top of that and the project is planning to contribute to advance the protocol.
ALM iStack project is funded by the Center for Open Middleware (COM) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
Client
UI
ALM API
LDP client
BL API
Middleware
LDP server
Identity
management
Storage
BugZilla Adapter
Model transformer
Tool gateway
Adapter API
TestLink Adapter
Model transformer
Tool gateway
Adapter API
 RDF
 HTTP Headers
 URL Query
 XML/JSON
 HTTP Headers
 URL Query?
CM
QM
AM
Document
Management
Subversion,
MediaWiki
Quality Control
Crucible, Checkstyle,
PMD, Findbugs,
Clover, Sonar
Reporting &
Communication
MediaWiki, Maven2
site, Atlassian suite
comments support
Project & Tasks
Management
Redmine
Bug Tracking
& Change
Management
Bugzilla
Software
Configuration
Management
Subversion, FishEye
Development
Environment
Eclipse Galileo, SOAPUI,
XML editors...
Continuous
Integration &
Delivery
Maven2, Bamboo
Shared Software
Repository
Artifactory
Testing
Testlink, SOAPUI,
JMeter, JUnit
Software development process involves a
set of activities including project planning,
requirement gathering, design and
architecture, software development, testing
and quality assurance, deployment, support.
All theses activities have to be integrated for
managing, coordinating and governing of the
operations in a more effective manner.
A specification that defines a REST API to
read and write Linked Data for the
purposes of enterprise application
integration. The Linked Data Platform
describes the use of a REST API for
accessing, updating, creating and deleting
resources from servers.
Linked Data Platform
GOAL
To develop an open source Application Lifecycle Management
platform that automates and supports the whole software development
lifecycle by integrating the best existing open source tools using
Linked Data.
Challenges
Product
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Critical
Major
Normal
Minor
Trivial
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High
Medium
Low
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Defect
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Incident
o Security
o Transactions
o Reliable Messaging
o Discovery and affordance
o RDF Data validation
o Data quality and consistency
o Performance
Integrating software development tools using Linked Data is a
promising approach. There are few challenging requirements to be
fulfilled before approach can be adopted by the industry.
ALM iStack Ontology
ALM iStack outcomes
A set of specifications that enable
integration of software development and
more broadly Application Lifecycle
Management by defining a set of common
vocabularies for different software
engineering domains.