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The decision view of software architecture

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Juan C. Due�as,

Rafael CapillaAuthors Info & Claims

EWSA'05: Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture

Pages 222 - 230

https://doi.org/10.1007/11494713_15

Published: 13 June 2005 Publication History

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Documenting software architectures is a key aspect to achieve success when communicating the architecture to different stakeholders. Several architectural views have been used with different purposes during the design process. The traditional view on software architecture defines this in terms of components and connectors. Also, the “4+1” view model proposes several views from the same design to satisfy the interests of the different stakeholders involved in the modelling process. In this position paper we try to go a step beyond previous proposals, to detail the idea of considering the architecture as a composition of architectural design decisions. We will propose a set of elements, information and graphical notation to record the design decisions during the modelling process.

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EWSA'05: Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture

June 2005

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School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, UK
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Flavio Oquendo
VALORIA Laboratory, University of South Brittany, Tohannic Campus, Vannes, France

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