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Software architecture is an important part of software development, aiming at ensuring a high-quality product. Recent research has shown that collaboration and knowledge management are important parts of the architecture process, and have significant role in architecture design and review. In this paper we present a prototype for a tool we developed, as part of our ongoing research on the software architecture process, for supporting collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing during all steps of the architecture development process. This tool was developed based on the findings of a case-study research in a global, large software organization.
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Sherman, S., Hadar, I., Levy, M., Unkelos-Shpigel, N. (2016). Enhancing Software Architecture via a Knowledge Management and Collaboration Tool. In: Kunifuji, S., Papadopoulos, G., Skulimowski, A., Kacprzyk  , J. (eds) Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27478-2_41
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