The approach is intended to address the entire development cycle, hence the name. viewpoint-oriented system Engineering was developed at Imperial College London in the early 1990s and is well documented in the literature (Finkelstein et al 1992: Nuseibeh et al.). The underlying philosophy of the framework is that software development involves the participation of many experts, in various aspects-of software development and the application area .
Each participant may have responsibilities and concerns which may change
and shift as the software develops and evolves.