A Model-Driven Approach to Extract Views from an Architecture Description Language

A common approach to defining architectural views is to have independent heterogeneous representations that are tailored to each view´s purpose, but this makes reconciling views into an overall architectural description harder. In this paper we put forward a complementary (not alternative) approach in which some views are derived from a given architecture description language (ADL) in a systematic way, by listing the design questions each view should answer. The approach is based on constructing the language´s metamodel and extending it with the entities and associations needed to capture and explicitly relate the required views.