Software Architecture as a Set of Architectural Design Decisions
Anton Jansen,Jan Bosch +1 more
- pp 109-120
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A new perspective on software architecture is presented, which views software architecture as a composition of a set of explicit design decisions, which makes architectural design decisions an explicit part of a software architecture.Abstract:
Software architectures have high costs for change, are complex, and erode during evolution We believe these problems are partially due to knowledge vaporization Currently, almost all the knowledge and information about the design decisions the architecture is based on are implicitly embedded in the architecture, but lack a first-class representation Consequently, knowledge about these design decisions disappears into the architecture, which leads to the aforementioned problems In this paper, a new perspective on software architecture is presented, which views software architecture as a composition of a set of explicit design decisions This perspective makes architectural design decisions an explicit part of a software architecture Consequently, knowledge vaporization is reduced, thereby alleviating some of the fundamental problems of software architectureread more
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