Viewpoints: July 2007

Welcome

Almost 20 years ago I wrote a thesis on the use of Viewpoints in Requirements Elicitation. It was one of the first works that explored the idea of using different viewpoints for better understanding software requirements. It stands on the shoulders of two giants: SADT and Core, but it went further as to use automation in the process of using different viewpoints and perspectives to elicit more sound requirements.

I am making the original text available. I will also use this space as to gather work related to the topic.

Please fell free to comment. I will moderate the comments, and may comment on some of them. The intention of this space is to foster debate as well as to serve as a reference on the topic.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Early Work

During the 5th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design 4 papers dealt with the concept of viewpoints.

Viewpoint analysis: a case stud y
J. C. S. P. Leite

A look through PRISMA: towards pluralistic knowledge-based environments for software specification acquisition
C. Niskier, T. Maibaum, D. Schwabe

Multiparty specification
A. Finkelstein, H. Fuks

Integrating multiple specifications using domain goals
W. N. Robinson

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Perspectives x Viewpoints x Views

One of the important things in understanding viewpoints is making it clear that a viewpoint is different from a perspective.

My definition stands still: from pages 50 and 51.

Viewpoints

The Thesis is available as a image pdf file. Later on, I and Peter Freeman, my advisor, published, in the IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, an article stressing the important findings of our viewpoint research.

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