TY - JOUR AU - Тетяна Говорущенко AU - Ольга Павлова PY - 2018/06/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - CURRENT PROBLEMS OF EVALUATING THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE JF - Electrotechnic and Computer Systems JA - ELTECS VL - 0 IS - 27(103) SE - Information systems and technologies DO - 10.15276/eltecs.27.103.2018.19 UR - https://eltecs.op.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/280 AB - The conducted analysis of information technologies for the software engineering domain has shown the need for the development of information technologies of the new generation, in which the person is eliminated from the process of processing the information and gaining the knowledge. The conducted study of the impact of the initial stages of the lifecycle on the success of the software projects revealed that the ability to automate the evaluation of the level of elaboration of the initial stages of the software lifecycle based on the analysis of the specifications (in particular, the automated evaluation of the sufficiency of information in the software requirements specifications) is actual and very important. The conducted analysis of known methods and automated tools of analysis of the software requirements specifications showed that they are not accepta- ble for the evaluation of the level of elaboration of the initial stages of the software lifecycle based on the anal- ysis of specifications. The conducted study of ontologies for evaluating the initial stages of the software lifecycle revealed the interest of researchers to intelligent agents on the basis of the ontological approach as the key tools for eliminating the person from the processes of information processing and knowledge gaining. Nowa- days, the numbers of ontological models, methods and tools (agents) have been developed, but they belong to different methodological approaches and don't integrate with each other, that is, there is currently no agent- oriented information technology for evaluating the initial stages of the software lifecycle based on the ontological approach. The actuality of the task of automated evaluating the level of elaboration of the initial stages of the software lifecycle on the basis of the analysis of specifications (in particular, the automated evaluating the sufficiency of information in the software requirements specification), and the lack of information technology of evaluating the initial stages of the software lifecycle causes the need of development of the agent-oriented infor- mation technology for evaluating the initial stages of the software lifecycle based on the ontological approach.  ER -