Supporting View-Based Development through Orthographic Software Modeling

Colin Atkinson, Dietmar Stoll, Philipp Bostan

2009

Abstract

Although they are significantly different in how they decompose and conceptualize software systems, one thing that all advanced software engineering paradigms have in common is that they increase the number of different views involved in visualizing a system. Managing these different views can be challenging even when a paradigm is used independently, but when they are used together the number of views and inter-dependencies quickly becomes overwhelming. In this paper we present a novel approach for organizing and generating the different views used in advanced software engineering methods that we call Orthographic Software Modeling (OSM). This provides a simple metaphor for integrating different development paradigms and for leveraging domain specific languages in software engineering. Development environments that support OSM essentially raise the level of abstraction at which developers interact with their tools by hiding the idiosyncrasies of specific editors, storage choices and artifact organization policies. The overall benefit is to significantly simplify the use of advanced software engineering methods.

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Atkinson C., Stoll D. and Bostan P. (2009). Supporting View-Based Development through Orthographic Software Modeling . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-811-98-2, pages 71-86. DOI: 10.5220/0001953200710086


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@conference{enase09,
author={Colin Atkinson and Dietmar Stoll and Philipp Bostan},
title={Supporting View-Based Development through Orthographic Software Modeling},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2009},
pages={71-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001953200710086},
isbn={978-989-811-98-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Supporting View-Based Development through Orthographic Software Modeling
SN - 978-989-811-98-2
AU - Atkinson C.
AU - Stoll D.
AU - Bostan P.
PY - 2009
SP - 71
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0001953200710086