Recently, Agile Software Processes have been discussed as flexible and light-weight alternatives to established Software Engineering approaches, in order to overcome the obstacles...
Many claims have been made about the consequences of not documenting design rationale. The general perception is that designers and architects usually do not fully understand the ...
Antony Tang, Muhammad Ali Babar, Ian Gorton, Jun H...
A design rationale (DR) is a representation of the reasoning which has been invested in a design [1]. This short paper describes the use of the QOC Design Space Analysis approach ...
Simon Buckingham Shum, Allan MacLean, Justin Forde...
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 met...
Design rationale remains poorly explained and rarely modelled on projects in industry. However, the reasons for design decisions are important when a specification has to be re-ex...