Simple View

**Context**.You have found some useful domain information to expose and have decided to implement a Custom View. page

**Problem**. How should you design a custom view to effectively communicate the information of interest?

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This pattern follows exactly the same reasoning as the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) approach [1] for designing software metrics. A view, like a metric, only exists because it helps you to answer a ques- tion that supports you in achieving some goal. Views, or metrics, that do not support a specific goal or answer a concrete question have no reason to exist […]

[1] Victor R Basili, Gianluigi Caldiera, and H. Dieter Rombach. 1994. The goal question metric approach. In Encyclopedia of software engineering, John J. Marciniak (Ed.). John Wiley & Sons Inc., 528–532.