Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision

Mojtaba Shahin; Peng Liang; Mohammad Reza Khayyambashi

doi:10.1145/1833335.1833348

Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision

Mojtaba Shahin, Peng Liang, Mohammad Reza Khayyambashi

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Abstract

Concentrating on components and connectors in traditional approaches to document software architecture causes the problems, such as high costs for architecture change and erode during architecture evolution. These problems result in a tendency to record architectural design decisions and their rationale made throughout architecting process. This tendency encourages practitioners and researchers to develop various models and related tools to model, capture, manage, share, and (re)use architectural design decisions. But there still remains a need to visualize and explore architectural design decisions due to the huge number of decisions and relationships among them in large and complex systems development. In this paper, we first make a survey on tools that support visualization of architectural design decisions, their features and deficiencies. Second we investigate how Compendium tool can be employed as a general tool to visualize architectural design decisions and their rationale. Last we present how the visualization by Compendium can improve the understandability and support the communication of architectural design in architecting process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, SHARK 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	88-95
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781605589671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1833335.1833348
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge (SHARK ) held at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2011 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 2 May 2010 → 8 May 2010 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1833335 (Proceedings)

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Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)	0270-5257

Workshop

Workshop	Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge (SHARK ) held at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2011
Abbreviated title	SHARK 2011
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	2/05/10 → 8/05/10
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1833335 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Architectural design decision
Design rationale
Rationale visualization
Software architecture

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Shahin, M., Liang, P., & Khayyambashi, M. R. (2010). Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision. In 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, SHARK 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010 (pp. 88-95). (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/1833335.1833348

Shahin, Mojtaba ; Liang, Peng ; Khayyambashi, Mohammad Reza. / Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision. 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, SHARK 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. pp. 88-95 (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering).

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Shahin, M, Liang, P & Khayyambashi, MR 2010, Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision. in 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, SHARK 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010. Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 88-95, Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge (SHARK ) held at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2011, Cape Town, South Africa, 2/05/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1833335.1833348

Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision. / Shahin, Mojtaba; Liang, Peng; Khayyambashi, Mohammad Reza.
2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, SHARK 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. p. 88-95 (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering).

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Shahin M, Liang P, Khayyambashi MR. Improving understandability of architecture design through visualization of architectural design decision. In 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, SHARK 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2010. p. 88-95. (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering). doi: 10.1145/1833335.1833348

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