The Decision View's Role in Software Architecture Practice

Authors:
Philippe Kruchten;Rafael Capilla;Juan Carlos Dueñas
Affiliations:
University of British Columbia;Universidad Rey Juan Carlos;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Venue:
IEEE Software
Year:
2009

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Abstract

A decision view provides a useful complement to the traditional sets of architectural views and viewpoints. It gives an explanatory perspective that illuminates the reasoning process itself and not solely its results. The decision view documents aspects of the architecture that are hard to reverse-engineer from the software itself and that are often left tacit. The decision view and the decisions that it captures embody high-level architectural knowledge that can be transferred to other practitioners and merged when systems are merged, and they offer useful support for maintaining large, long-lived software-intensive systems. This article leads readers through a succession of epiphanies: from design to architecture, then architecture representation to architecture design methods, and finally to architectural design decisions.