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The Decision View of Software Architecture

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Software Architecture (EWSA 2005)

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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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  1. Department of Engineering of Telematic Systems, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Juan C. Dueñas

  2. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/ Tulipan s/n, 28933, Madrid, Spain

    Rafael Capilla

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9SX, St Andrews, Fife, UK

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  2. VALORIA Laboratory, University of South Brittany, Tohannic Campus, 56017, Vannes, France

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Dueñas, J.C., Capilla, R. (2005). The Decision View of Software Architecture. In: Morrison, R., Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494713_15

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