The Decision View of Software Architecture

Dueñas, Juan C.; Capilla, Rafael

doi:10.1007/11494713_15

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“…Such information crosscuts the information from other architectural views, such as mentioned in the "decision view" [7], which should be seen as a complementary view to the other traditional ones. ADDSS uses plain text in database fields and PDF documents to store and present the design decisions.…”

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Extending Software Architecting Processes with Decision-Making Activities

Capilla

Nava

2008

Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering

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Abstract. The traditional perspective on software architecture has paid much attention to architecting as a development process aimed at creating the architecture of a software system, as well as the documentation used to communicate the architecture to the stakeholders by means of several architectural views. Recently, the software architecture research community has faced the need to record, manage, and document the design decisions and the rationale that lead to such architecture. Because architectures are the result of a set of design decisions, this design rationale must be properly recorded and managed as a complementary process to the modelling activity. In this paper we detail different types of decision-making activities aimed at creating and using design decisions and how these can be supported with tool support.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Extending Software Architecting Processes with Decision-Making Activities

Capilla

Nava

2008

Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering

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“…PDF documents can be generated containing the detailed description of the architectures and their decisions. Such documentation makes explicit the ideas of the decision view described in Dueñas and Capilla (2005) and provides a communication vehicle between the stakeholders. ADDSS has been evaluated with following case studies:…”

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A comparative study of architecture knowledge management tools

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Avgeriou

Jansen

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Journal of Systems and Software

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a b s t r a c tRecent research suggests that architectural knowledge, such as design decisions, is important and should be recorded alongside the architecture description. Different approaches have emerged to support such architectural knowledge (AK) management activities. However, there are different notions of and emphasis on what and how architectural activities should be supported. This is reflected in the design and implementation of existing AK tools. To understand the current status of software architecture knowledge engineering and future research trends, this paper compares five architectural knowledge management tools and the support they provide in the architecture life-cycle. The comparison is based on an evaluation framework defined by a set of 10 criteria. The results of the comparison provide insights into the current focus of architectural knowledge management support, their advantages, deficiencies, and conformance to the current architectural description standard. Based on the outcome of this comparison a research agenda is proposed for future work on AK tools.

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“…Nowadays, software architecture has been seen as a set of architectural design decisions [4], [19], [30]. The architectural decisions in the software architecting process are increasingly focused by researchers and practitioners [16], [22], and architectural design decisions are also considered to be a part of architectural knowledge [23]. In [15], a systematic review for architectural knowledge is presented, and different definitions on architectural knowledge and how they are relevant to each other are discussed as well.…”

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confidence: 99%