Architecture reviews are an effective way of ensuring design quality and addressing architectural concerns. However, the software engineering community rarely adopts the methods and techniques available to support disciplined architecture review processes.
Management of software architecture knowledge is vital for improving an organisation’s architectural capabilities. Despite the recognition of the importance of capturing and reusing software architecture knowledge, there ...
Software maintenance is widely known as a problematic area that may consume up to 80% of a software project’s resources. It has been claimed that providing an effective mechanism to access Design Rationale (DR) has great ...
Ali Babar, Muhammad; Gorton, Ian(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
Capturing the technical knowledge, contextual information, and rationale surrounding the design decisions underpinning system architectures can greatly improve the software development process. If not managed, this critical ...
Ali Babar, Muhammad; Gorton, Ian(IEEE Computer Society, 2004)
Software engineering community has proposed
several methods to evaluate software architectures with
respect to desired quality attributes such as
maintainability, performance, and so on. There is,
however, little effort ...
Ali Babar, Muhammad; Gorton, Ian(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
This paper describes a tool for managing architectural
knowledge and rationale. The tool has been developed
to support a framework for capturing and using
architectural knowledge to improve the architecture
process. ...
