Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Mining Patterns to Support Software Architecture Evaluation
WICSA '04 Proceedings of the Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
A web-based tool for managing architectural design decisions
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Industrial Perspective on the Usefulness of Design Rationale for Software Maintenance: A Survey
QSIC '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quality Software
A survey of architecture design rationale
Journal of Systems and Software
A rationale-based architecture model for design traceability and reasoning
Journal of Systems and Software
Visualizing Design Patterns in Their Applications and Compositions
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Systematic pattern selection using pattern language grammars and design space analysis
Software—Practice & Experience
Architectural Effects on Requirements Decisions: An Exploratory Study
WICSA '08 Proceedings of the Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)
A Metamodeling Approach for Reasoning about Requirements
ECMDA-FA '08 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications
The Palladio component model for model-driven performance prediction
Journal of Systems and Software
Controversy Corner: On the similarity between requirements and architecture
Journal of Systems and Software
Using rationale to support pattern-based architectural design
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
Architectural Decisions as Reusable Design Assets
IEEE Software
Towards a process for architectural modelling in agile software development
Proceedings of the joint ACM SIGSOFT conference -- QoSA and ACM SIGSOFT symposium -- ISARCS on Quality of software architectures -- QoSA and architecting critical systems -- ISARCS
A metamodeling approach to pattern specification
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
EKAW'06 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks
On the appropriate rationale for using design patterns and pattern documentation
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM Sigsoft conference on Quality of software architectures
Towards architecture-centric evolution of long-living systems (the ADVERT approach)
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM Sigsoft conference on Quality of software architectures
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Documented design decisions simplify the evolution of software systems. However, currently design decisions are often either badly documented or are not documented at all. Relations between requirements, decisions, and architectural elements are missing, and architecture alternatives are not preserved. As a consequence it is hard to identify deprecated design solutions when requirements change In this position paper, we present an approach to document software architecture design decisions, together with related requirements and related architectural elements, through the goal-driven elicitation of those requirements needed to make a design decision. Therefore, we propose a process model and supporting meta-models, including a meta-model for a pattern catalogue. The speciality of this pattern catalogue is the inclusion of questions to drive requirements engineering to validate pattern selections, and to guide choosing the most appropriate pattern variant. The paper concludes with a discussion on the assumptions of the approach and possible approaches to empirical validation.