Viewpoints Papers Published in the Requirements Engineering Journal

• Stakeholder viewpoints in requirements definition: A framework for understanding viewpoint development approaches,Peta Darke and Graeme Shank, 1996

• Practical Experience with Viewpoint-Oriented Requirements Specification, G. Kotonya, 1999

• Specifications in Context: Stakeholders, Systems and Modelling of Conflict, J. M. Coakes and E. W. Coakes, 2000

• Merging individual conceptual models of requirements, Debbie Richards, 2003

• View merging in the presence of incompleteness and inconsistency, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh and Steve Easterbrook, 2006

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Software Engineering Journal, Vol. 11, N.1

At this special edition of the Software Engineering Journal, just
referred at the previous note, 4 papers dealt with the Viewpoint concept.

• Requirements engineering with viewpoints -- Kotonya, G.; Sommerville, I.

• Using ViewPoints for inconsistency management -- Easterbrrok, S.; Nuseibeh, B.

• Cross-viewpoint consistency in open distributed processing -- Bowman, H.; Derrick, J.; Linington, P.; Steen, M.

• Formal validation of viewpoint specifications -- Ainsworth, M.; Riddle, S.; Wallis, P.J.L.

1996 Viewpoints FAQ

Sommerville and Finkelstein wrote this FAQ for a special edition
of the Software Engineering Journal.

Viewpoints Papers Published in IEEE TSE

• Requirements validation through viewpoint resolution, J Leite, PA Freeman - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1991

• A framework for expressing the relationships between multiple views in requirements specification, B Nuseibeh, J Kramer, A Finkelstein - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1994

• Inconsistency handling in multiperspective specifications, ACW Finkelstein, D Gabbay, A Hunter, J Kramer, B … - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 1994

• Inconsistency management for multiple-view software development environments, J Grundy, J Hosking, WB Mugridge - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1998

• Managing process inconsistency using viewpoints, I Sommerville, P Sawyer, S Viller - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 1999

• Managing requirements inconsistency with development goal monitors, WN Robinson, SD Pawlowski - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 1999

• A methodological framework for viewpoint-oriented conceptual modeling, J Andrade, J Ares, R Garcia, J Pazos, S Rodriguez, … - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2004

Early Work

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

• Viewpoint analysis: a case study
  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

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.