Software Architecture Documentation: The Road Ahead

  • Authors:
  • Antony Tang;Peng Liang;Hans van Vliet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WICSA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Ninth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The basic format in which software requirements and architecture designs are documented is essentially file-based, and it has persisted for decades. Current indexing methods used in file-based documentation are not conducive to retrieving software knowledge. We propose to index software documents with a suitable lightweight ontology to improve the retrieval and traceability of software knowledge. Initial results from a prototype implementation have shown promising prospects.