Making the Right Decision: Supporting Architects with Design Decision Data

Ven, Jan Salvador van der; Bosch, Jan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_15

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“…Part of this investigation will involve understanding the needs of OSS developers about SAD. (2) Obtain architectural information in other documentation sources, for example, OSS project blogs [51], mailing lists [52], social media [41], forums, code comments, and commit data [53], which are not covered and analyzed in this survey. We plan to further investigate these related architectural information sources on how architectural knowledge is shared between stakeholders and employed in OSS development (e.g., using various knowledge-based approaches [54]) with these sources, and how these sources can be collected to enrich OSS SA documentation.…”

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How Do Open Source Communities Document Software Architecture: An Exploratory Survey

Ding

Liang

Tang

et al. 2014

2014 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

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Abstract-Software architecture (SA) documentation provides a blueprint of a software-intensive system for the communication between stakeholders about the high-level design of the system. In open source software (OSS) development, a lack of SA documentation may hinder the use and further development of OSS, but how much "architecture" documentation is enough and appropriate is largely dependent on the contextual factors of development. In order to understand the state of the practice of SA documentation in OSS projects, we conducted a documentation-based survey to explore how SA is documented in OSS projects. Out of 2,000 OSS projects from four major OSS sources, we found that 108 projects have some SA documentation, which shows that the SA documentation is scarce in OSS development. We analyzed these 108 projects to understand what SA information has been documented and how they have been described. We have found that frequentlydocumented architectural information is model, system, and mission; natural language is the most frequently-used architectural language for specifying architectural information in OSS SA documents. The results also show that the likelihood that an OSS project will document SA is increased when more developers are involved in the project, and industry and research OSS projects are more likely to create SA documents than freelance projects.

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confidence: 99%

How Do Open Source Communities Document Software Architecture: An Exploratory Survey

Ding

Liang

Tang

et al. 2014

2014 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

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“…van der Ven and Bosch [18] distinguish between high-level decisions, medium-level decisions, and realization-level decisions. High-level architecture decisions affect the whole product.…”

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“…Recovery must be supported by both processes and tools. The work presented in [33,18] may be a first step in this direction.…”

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An expert survey on kinds, influence factors and documentation of design decisions in practice

Weinreich

Groher

Miesbauer

2015

Future Generation Computer Systems

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“…The results of this study provide several promising research directions: (1) The results and findings of this work can be further validated through a survey with the core developers of the two OSS projects; (2) As we mentioned in Section IV.C, a tool for a certain type of causes of architecture changes can be developed to deal with similar architecture changes based on the results of this work; (3) Other sources in OSS development, e.g., forums, commit data [31], and blogs [32], may also contain information about architecture changes and their causes. We may explore the possibility to identify architecture changes and their causes from these sources.…”

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confidence: 94%

Causes of Architecture Changes: An Empirical Study through the Communication in OSS Mailing Lists

Ding¹,

Liang²,

Tang³

et al. 2015

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Making the Right Decision: Supporting Architects with Design Decision Data

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

How Do Open Source Communities Document Software Architecture: An Exploratory Survey

How Do Open Source Communities Document Software Architecture: An Exploratory Survey

An expert survey on kinds, influence factors and documentation of design decisions in practice

Causes of Architecture Changes: An Empirical Study through the Communication in OSS Mailing Lists

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