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Naive Architecting - Understanding the Reasoning Process of Students

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Software architecting entails making architecture decisions, which requires a lot of experience and expertise. Current literature contains several methods and processes to support architects with architecture design, documentation and evaluation but not with the design reasoning involved in decision-making. In order to derive a systematic reasoning process we need to understand the current state of practice and propose ways to improve it. In this paper we present the results of a survey that was conducted with undergraduate software engineering students, aiming to find out the innate reasoning process during architecting. The results of the survey are compared to the existing architecture literature in order to identify promising directions towards systematic reasoning processes.

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  1. University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Uwe van Heesch & Paris Avgeriou

  2. Fontys University of Applied Sciences Venlo, The Netherlands

    Uwe van Heesch

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  1. Software Development Group, IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards, Vej 7, 2300, Copenhagen, S, Denmark

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  2. Computational and Information Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, MS: K7-90, Richland, PO Box 999, 99352, WA, USA

    Ian Gorton

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van Heesch, U., Avgeriou, P. (2010). Naive Architecting - Understanding the Reasoning Process of Students. In: Babar, M.A., Gorton, I. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15114-9_5

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