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Criteria for Orthographic Viewpoints

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Colin Atkinson,

Christian TunjicAuthors Info & Claims

VAO '14: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on View-Based, Aspect-Oriented and Orthographic Software Modelling

Pages 43 - 50

https://doi.org/10.1145/2631675.2631680

Published: 22 July 2014 Publication History

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Although there is growing consensus on the need to move to comprehensive, view-based approaches to software engineering, there is much less consensus on what views and viewpoints should be used to do this and what relationship they should have to the system being viewed. One approach that aims to provide a simple yet powerful approach to view-based software engineering is the orthographic modeling approach inspired by the orthographic projection technique used in CAD systems. However, the criteria that a set of views and viewpoints should fulfill to be regarded as orthographic have never been clearly defined. Nor have the criteria that a set of dimensions should fulfill in order to be regarded as orthogonal. In this paper we aim to take some initial steps towards defining such criteria. After first identifying some of the main weaknesses in existing view-based modeling approaches we provide an overview of orthographic modeling and clarify some of the principles that underpin it.

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Atkinson CTunjic CMöller T(2015)Fundamental Realization Strategies for Multi-view Specification EnvironmentsProceedings of the 2015 IEEE 19th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference10.1109/EDOC.2015.17(40-49)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/EDOC.2015.17

Index Terms

Criteria for Orthographic Viewpoints
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages
    2. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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Tunjic CAtkinson C(2015)Synchronization of Projective Views on a Single-Underlying-ModelProceedings of the 2015 Joint MORSE/VAO Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering and View-based Software-Engineering10.1145/2802059.2802066(55-58)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2802059.2802066
Atkinson CTunjic CMöller T(2015)Fundamental Realization Strategies for Multi-view Specification EnvironmentsProceedings of the 2015 IEEE 19th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference10.1109/EDOC.2015.17(40-49)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/EDOC.2015.17

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