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A value-based approach for documenting design decisions rationale: a replicated experiment

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A value-based approach for documenting design decisions rationale: a replicated experiment
The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Known methods for Design Decisions Rationale Documentation (DDRD) are aimed to maximize the benefits for practitioners who should utilize the DDRD by imposing the burden on the developers of documenting all the potentially useful information. In our view, the adoption of a tailored DDRD, consisting only of the required set of information, would mitigate the effects of DDRD inhibitors. This paper focuses on confirming empirically the feasibility of a valuebased approach for documenting the rationale behind design decisions, and the importance of different DDRD information categories. In this context, this work describes a replicated experiment carried out at the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid (Spain) aimed to validate previous results from an analogous study conducted at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)...
Davide Falessi, Rafael Capilla, Giovanni Cantone
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ICSE
Authors Davide Falessi, Rafael Capilla, Giovanni Cantone
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