{"title":"A value-based approach for documenting design decisions rationale: a replicated experiment","authors":"D. Falessi, Rafael Capilla, G. Cantone","doi":"10.1145/1370062.1370079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1370062.1370079","url":null,"abstract":"The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Known methods for Design Decisions Rationale Documentation (DDRD) are aimed to maximize the benefits for practitioners who should utilize the DDRD by imposing the burden on the developers of documenting all the potentially useful information. In our view, the adoption of a tailored DDRD, consisting only of the required set of information, would mitigate the effects of DDRD inhibitors. This paper focuses on confirming empirically the feasibility of a value-based approach for documenting the rationale behind design decisions, and the importance of different DDRD information categories. In this context, this work describes a replicated experiment carried out at the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid (Spain) aimed to validate previous results from an analogous study conducted at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy). Results confirm that the level of utility related to the same category of DDRD information significantly changes depending on its purpose.","PeriodicalId":325791,"journal":{"name":"Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130425128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploiting connector knowledge to efficiently disseminate highly voluminous data sets","authors":"C. Mattmann, D. Woollard, N. Medvidović","doi":"10.1145/1370062.1370072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1370062.1370072","url":null,"abstract":"Ever-growing amounts of data that must be distributed from data providers to consumers across the world necessitate a greater understanding of the software architectural implications of choosing data movement technologies. Currently, this understanding is mired in the minds of software architects who have been there before, and who rely on past intuition and choices, failing to properly document their rationale and context. In this paper we describe a software architecture-based decision making framework called DISCO for selecting data movement technologies, or software connectors. DISCO effectively captures (traditionally undocumented) insight, observation and ultimately architectural knowledge about the connectors, demonstrating the effectiveness of using such information to accurately encode the connector selection decision making process","PeriodicalId":325791,"journal":{"name":"Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122820753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOA process decisions: new challenges in architectural knowledge modeling","authors":"Qing Gu, P. Lago","doi":"10.1145/1370062.1370065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1370062.1370065","url":null,"abstract":"Architectural design decisions are commonly agreed as one of the main elements that constitute architectural knowledge. To avoid knowledge vaporization, architectural decisions and their rationale need to be documented in a systematic manner. Various works have been done on representing architectural knowledge. Process decisions are one type of design decisions that existing models have paid little attention to. In this paper, we specifically address process decisions in the SOA domain. In doing so, we challenge architectural knowledge representations by mapping two SOA process decisions against a core model of architectural knowledge. The result suggests that existing models need to be extended in order to model SOA process decisions.","PeriodicalId":325791,"journal":{"name":"Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126387219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architecting as decision making with patterns and primitives","authors":"Uwe Zdun, P. Avgeriou, C. Hentrich, S. Dustdar","doi":"10.1145/1370062.1370066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1370062.1370066","url":null,"abstract":"The application of patterns is used as a foundation for many central design decisions in software architecture, but because of the informal nature of patterns, these design decisions are usually not precisely documented in the models. In our earlier work, we had proposed pattern primitives as a solution to precisely model the patterns in the corresponding architectural views. Building upon that approach, this paper introduces a pattern-based architecting process that aims at inexpensively documenting design decisions in the architectural views alongside the natural flow of design. The decisions that are made explicit, concern the selection of patterns, their variants and the corresponding primitives, as well as the resolution of inconsistencies between the architectural views. The approach is demonstrated in the domain of process-driven SOA for two architectural views: Component-and-Connector and Process Flow.","PeriodicalId":325791,"journal":{"name":"Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122331107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging analysis-aided design decision knowledge in UML-based development of embedded systems","authors":"H. Espinoza, D. Servat, S. Gérard","doi":"10.1145/1370062.1370078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1370062.1370078","url":null,"abstract":"Many important works have been carried out to provide modeling languages (e.g., UML, SDL) with expressiveness to support embedded system design, validation and verification. A fundamental shortcoming in current model-driven approaches is the inability to explicitly capture design decisions and trade-offs between different non-functional parameters, among which timeliness, memory usage, and power consumption are of primary interest. This paper highlights technical limitations in UML to specify complex non-functional evaluation scenarios of candidate architectures, and outlines our current work to provide straightforward solutions.","PeriodicalId":325791,"journal":{"name":"Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123027422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scott A. Hendrickson, Swaminathan Subramanian, A. Hoek
{"title":"Multi-tiered design rationale for change set based product line architectures","authors":"Scott A. Hendrickson, Swaminathan Subramanian, A. Hoek","doi":"10.1145/1370062.1370073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1370062.1370073","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge of why some product line architecture (PLA) consists of the specific features and feature interactions that constitute its overall structure is an invaluable resource for an architect. However, most PLA modeling techniques do not model these concepts explicitly. This requires that the architect express rationale separately, which increases the likelihood that it diverges and slowly but surely loses its value. To address this, we present an approach to capturing rationale that relies on a particular form of PLA modeling, namely PLAs modeled using change sets and relationships. In so doing, we enable the architect to express rationale concerning the PLA at three different tiers, covering individual elements in the PLA, change sets and their raison d'être, and the relationships that govern how individual product architectures are composed.","PeriodicalId":325791,"journal":{"name":"Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126575899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}