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What are viewpoints ?

Software architecture is commonly organized in views, which are analogous to the different types of blueprints made in building architecture. Within the ontology established by ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000, views are instances of viewpoints, where a viewpoint exists to describe the architecture in question from the perspective of a given set of stakeholders and their concerns.

Some possible views (actually, viewpoints in the 1471 ontology) are:

  • Functional view
  • Code view
  • Structural view
  • Concurrency view
  • Deployment view
  • User action view
  • Data view