Rationale is the justification behind decisions. It is captured and used in many different forms
during software engineering. While it has not achieved widespread use in practice, several …

In this chapter, we motivate and describe the use of rationale knowledge during software
development. Rationale methods aim at capturing, representing, and maintaining records …

Many decisions have to be made when developing a software system and a successful
outcome depends on how well thought out these decisions were. One way that the decisions …

Software architecture can be seen as a decision making process; it involves making the right
decisions at the right time. Typically, these design decisions are not explicitly represented in …

The most distinctive thing about humans is not the thumb, of course. It is design. Unlike any
other animal, we incessantly and dramatically reshape both ourselves and our environment …

We provide an introduction to what design rationale is and why it is important in software
engineering. We look at the recent history of argumentation methods. We survey a number …

Documenting software architecture rationale is essential to reuse and evaluate
architectures, and several modeling and documentation guidelines have been proposed in …

A key motive for developing ways to structure and preserve records of decision making in
software development is the belief that the high cost of system maintenance could be …

Rationale refers to making human judgments, sets of reasons, or intentions to explain a
particular decision. Nowadays, crowd-users argue and justify their decisions on social …

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