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Architectural decision identification in architectural patterns

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WICSA/ECSA '12: Proceedings of the WICSA/ECSA 2012 Companion Volume

Pages 96 - 103

https://doi.org/10.1145/2361999.2362021

Published: 20 August 2012 Publication History

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When modeling recurring architectural decisions for reuse, the boundaries of the knowledge asset under construction must be defined in a scoping step. This paper introduces and combines two supporting concepts for this step, pattern-centric decision identification rules and generic meta issues; one particular meta issue catalog is also presented. The resulting general-purpose decision identification method is validated by identifying 35 decisions that recur in enterprise application development and service-oriented architecture design.

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Architectural decision identification in architectural patterns
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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WICSA/ECSA '12: Proceedings of the WICSA/ECSA 2012 Companion Volume

August 2012

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ISBN:9781450315685

DOI:10.1145/2361999

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Aalto University, Finland
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IT Univ. of Copenhagen
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Juan Carlos Univ.
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