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Tracing architecturally significant requirements: a decision-centric approach

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ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1985793.1986014

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This thesis describes a Decision-Centric traceability framework that supports software engineering activities such as architectural preservation, impact analysis, and visualization of design intent. We present a set of traceability patterns, derived from studying real-world architectural designs in high-assurance and high-performance systems. We further present a trace-retrieval approach that reverse engineers design decisions and their associated traceability links by training a classifier to recognize fragments of design decisions and then using the traceability patterns to reconstitute the decisions from their individual parts.

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Tracing architecturally significant requirements: a decision-centric approach
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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DOI:10.1145/1985793

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