Tool Support for ViewPoint-oriented Software Development

In this contribution we present tool support addressing the multiple perspectives problem. For organizing and integrating multiple stakeholders, the development processes and notations they use, and the partial specifications they produce we use the ViewPoints framework. A formalization of the ViewPoints framework based on distributed graph transformation builds the foundation of our tool. Introduction and Related Work The concepts wrt. the ViewPoints framework as well as its formalization by distributed graph transformation have been sketched in [2, 3]. A detailed description of the graph transformation tool AGG on which our tool is based can be found in [4]. First we will give a general introduction to our tool in the chapter The ViewPoint Tool. Then we will present the three main tool components in the chapters ViewPoint Manager, Template Editor and ViewPoint Editor. Finally, we will refer to advanced features of our tool in the chapters Inconsistency Management and Distribution.