Title :
ViewPoint-oriented software development by distributed graph transformation: towards a basis for living with inconsistencies
Author :
Goedicke, Michael ; Meyer, Torsten ; Taentzer, Gabriele
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Essen Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Software development is a staged and evolutionary process. Multiple stakeholders with different needs and views collaborate to build a system from interoperating and heterogeneous development artifacts. In such a setting, one has to cope with requirements changing dynamically during the entire lifetime of the system. Within this changing world living with inconsistencies is natural. Tool support is needed to tolerate inconsistencies and help developers to use them to drive the development process forward. In this contribution we consider the application of distributed graph transformation to the problem of formalizing the integration of multiple perspectives in software development called ViewPoints. Our work concentrates on requirements engineering. We demonstrate how inconsistency management can be used as a tool for requirements analysis by presenting a sample integration of architecture design and performance evaluation views
Keywords :
graph theory; software architecture; software performance evaluation; systems analysis; ViewPoint; distributed graph transformation; inconsistency management; performance evaluation; requirements analysis; requirements change; requirements engineering; software architecture design; software development; tool support; Animation; Collaborative work; Costs; Delay; Electrical capacitance tomography; Forward contracts; Organizing; Programming; Software systems; Spirals;
Conference_Titel :
Requirements Engineering, 1999. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Limerick
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0188-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISRE.1999.777989
