Architecture-Centric modeling of design decisions for validation and traceability

Authors:
Martin Küster
Affiliations:
FZI Research Center for Information Technologies, Software Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany
Venue:
ECSA'13 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Software Architecture
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Access to previously made architectural design decisions allows for faster understanding and more educated decisions during software evolution. Templates and ontologies have been proposed to document such decisions. In this paper we argue that documenting the architectural design decisions can be intertwined with a standard architecture documentation process. For that, we propose architecture-specific decision types equipped with OCL constraints capable for decision conformance checks. We present an initial evaluation based on a preliminary case study with a typical three-tier web-application and the decisions associated with its implementation.