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

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

99

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Requirements Engineering, 1999. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Limerick

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0188-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISRE.1999.777989

Filename

777989