Model-driven development processes suffer from growing complexity, which leads to
information spread across heterogeneous metamodels as well as drift and erosion between
architecture and implementation. In this paper, we present a view-based modeling approach
based on Orthographic Software Modeling (OSM), and introduce flexible views as a concept
for the creation of custom, user-specific views. The envisioned benefit of the approach is to
improve software quality, to increase consistency between the various modeling artifacts in …

Modern software development faces the problem of fragmentation of information across
heterogeneous artefacts in different modelling and programming languages. In this
dissertation, the Vitruvius approach for view-based engineering is presented. Flexible views
offer a compact definition of user-specific views on software systems, and can be defined the
novel ModelJoin language. The process is supported by a change metamodel for
metamodel evolution and change impact analysis.