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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Argumentation-based design rationale: what use at what cost?
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
An empirical evaluation of design rationale documents
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Software reuse: architecture, process and organization for business success
Software reuse: architecture, process and organization for business success
PuLSE: a methodology to develop software product lines
SSR '99 Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Software reusability
The Rational Unified Process: an introduction
The Rational Unified Process: an introduction
Software product-line engineering: a family-based software development process
Software product-line engineering: a family-based software development process
Quantifying the costs and benefits of architectural decisions
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Design Rationale Systems: Understanding the Issues
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
PROFES '00 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Architecture Decisions: Demystifying Architecture
IEEE Software
A qualitative empirical evaluation of design decisions
HSSE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Human and social factors of software engineering
Value-Based Software Engineering
Value-Based Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Automating the Trace of Architectural Design Decisions and Rationales Using a MDD Approach
ECSA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
SOA decision making - what do we need to know
SHARK '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
Reusable architectural decision models for enterprise application development
QoSA'07 Proceedings of the Quality of software architectures 3rd international conference on Software architectures, components, and applications
Using rationale to support pattern-based architectural design
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
Capturing exploration to improve software architecture documentation
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
Effective tool support for architectural knowledge sharing
ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Traceability and SysML design slices to support safety inspections: A controlled experiment
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Design decisions crucially influence the success of every software project. While the resulting design is typically documented quite well, the situation is usually different for the underlying rationale and decision-making process. Despite being recognized as a helpful approach in general, the explicit documentation of Design Decision Rationale (DDR) is not yet largely utilized due to some inhibitors (e.g., additional documentation effort). Experience with other qualities, e.g. software reusability, evidently shows that an improvement of these qualities only pays off on a large scale and therefore has to be pursued in a strategic, pre-planned, and carefully focused way. In this paper we argue that this also has to be considered for documenting DDR. To this end the paper presents: (i) the Decision, Goal, and Alternatives (DGA) DDR framework, (ii) experience in dealing with DGA, (iii) motivators and inhibitors of using DDR, and (iv) an approach for systematic DDR use that follows value-based software engineering principles.