CONTEXT: Software evolvability describes a software system's ability to easily
accommodate future changes. It is a fundamental characteristic for making strategic …

Context Software documents are core artifacts produced and consumed in documentation
activity in the software lifecycle. Meanwhile, knowledge-based approaches have been …

The importance of architectural knowledge (AK) management for software development has
been highlighted over the past ten years, where a significant amount of research has been …

Recent research suggests that architectural knowledge, such as design decisions, is
important and should be recorded alongside the architecture description. Different …

A software architecture manifests the major early design decisions. These early decisions
determine the system's development, deployment and evolution. Thus, making better …

In this paper, we introduce a documentation framework for architecture decisions. This
framework consists of four viewpoint definitions using the conventions of ISO/IEC/IEEE …

Software development has to deal with many challenges-increasing system complexity,
requests for better quality, the burden of maintenance operations, distributed production …

Context Given the increased interest in using visualization techniques (VTs) to help
communicate and understand software architecture (SA) of large scale complex systems …

Throughout the software design process, developers must make decisions and reify them in
code. The decisions made during software architecting are particularly significant in that they …

Software architects consider capturing and sharing architectural decisions increasingly
important; many tacit dependencies exist in this architectural knowledge. Architectural …