Rationale Management in Software Engineering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dutoit, Allen H. (Editor), McCall, Raymond (Editor), Mistrík, Ivan (Editor), Paech, Barbara (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Models and Principles.

Thirty years ago, I first entered the dark realm of software engineering, through a prior interest in documentation. In those days, documentation pretty much meant functional specifications. The idea that stakeholders in a system (its implementers, its end-users, its maintainers, and so forth) might...