Guidance for Design Rationale Capture to Support Software Evolution

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Year of Publication
2014
Journal
Softwaretechnik-Trends
Volume
34
URL
http://pi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/stt/34_2/01_Fachgruppenberichte/WSRDFF/wsre_dff_2014-06_submission_d5.pdf
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Abstract
Documenting design rationale (DR) helps to preserve knowledge over long time to diminish software erosion and to ease maintenance and refactoring. However, use of DR in practice is still limited. One reason for this is the lack of concrete guidancefor capturing DR. This paper provides a first step towards identifying DR questions that can guide DR capturing and discusses required future research.