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Tool Support for Architectural Decisions

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Anton Jansen,

Jan van der Ven,

Paris Avgeriou,

Dieter K. HammerAuthors Info & Claims

WICSA '07: Proceedings of the Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture

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https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2007.47

Published: 06 January 2007 Publication History

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In contrast to software architecture models, architectural decisions are often not explicitly documented, and therefore eventually lost. This contributes to major problems such as high-cost system evolution, stakeholders miscommunication, and limited reusability of core system assets. An approach is outlined that systematically and semi-automatically documents architectural decisions and allows them to be effectively shared by the stakeholders. A first attempt is presented that partially implements the approach by binding architectural decisions, models and the system implementation. The approach is demonstrated with an example demonstrating its usefulness with regards to some industrial use cases.

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Tool Support for Architectural Decisions
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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WICSA '07: Proceedings of the Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture

January 2007

ISBN:0769527442

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