Architectural decision identification in architectural patterns

  • Authors:
  • Olaf Zimmermann

  • Affiliations:
  • Industrial Software Systems, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the WICSA/ECSA 2012 Companion Volume
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

When modeling recurring architectural decisions for reuse, the boundaries of the knowledge asset under construction must be defined in a scoping step. This paper introduces and combines two supporting concepts for this step, pattern-centric decision identification rules and generic meta issues; one particular meta issue catalog is also presented. The resulting general-purpose decision identification method is validated by identifying 35 decisions that recur in enterprise application development and service-oriented architecture design.