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Rationale, decisions and alternatives traceability for architecture design

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Gilson, Fabian Englebert, Vincent
Abstract	When designing information systems, architects must often deal with many requirements and constraints. Also, many parties may collaborate during design phases. Therefore, the rationale and decisions sustaining the architecture model can be lost if not documented appropriately. However, in order to understand and maintain these systems, we need to have a clear picture of the rationale and decisions behind their designs. To tackle this problem, we propose a design approach combining architecturally significant requirement modelling and architecture modelling. Constraint and Requirement are attached to architectural constructs. And any modification in the architecture model resulting from a decision made in the requirement model is recorded as a model transformation. We present both modelling formalisms and explain how we combine them to increase the traceability of the rationale, design decisions and alternatives as well as the maintainability of information systems.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	9
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450306188
DOI	10.1145/2031759.2031764
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2011-09-13
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Traceability Architecture description language Architectural alternative Design decision Architecturally significant requirement Architecture rationale
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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