Foundations for the study of software architecture
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
An empirical evaluation of design rationale documents
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The 4+1 View Model of Architecture
IEEE Software
Design Rationale Systems: Understanding the Issues
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
PROFES '00 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
Architecture Decisions: Demystifying Architecture
IEEE Software
A case study on value-based requirements tracing
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Value-Based Software Engineering
Value-Based Software Engineering
Software Architecture as a Set of Architectural Design Decisions
WICSA '05 Proceedings of the 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
Building up and Exploiting Architectural Knowledge
WICSA '05 Proceedings of the 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
A survey of architecture design rationale
Journal of Systems and Software
Modeling and Documenting the Evolution of Architectural Design Decisions
SHARK-ADI '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge Architecture, Rationale, and Design Intent
Value-Based Design Decision Rationale Documentation: Principles and Empirical Feasibility Study
WICSA '08 Proceedings of the Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)
The decision view of software architecture
EWSA'05 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
Applying empirical software engineering to software architecture: challenges and lessons learned
Empirical Software Engineering
A systematic review of software architecture evolution research
Information and Software Technology
Architecture-Centric modeling of design decisions for validation and traceability
ECSA'13 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Software Architecture
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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.