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

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-69

  Falessi, Davide ^a   Capilla, Rafael ^b   Cantone, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Design decisions; Design rationale; Documentation; Empirical software engineering; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN RATIONALE; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; REPLICATED EXPERIMENT; VALUE-BASED APPROACH;

EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

DESIGN;

EID: 79959449094     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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