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...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals – Rationale Representation, Capture, and Use
• Rationale Management in Software Engineering: Concepts and Techniques
• Three Studies of Design Rationale as Explanation
• Effective Design Rationale: Understanding the Barriers
• Rationale as a By-Product
• Hypermedia Support for Argumentation-Based Rationale
• Rationale Management for Requirements Engineering
• A Hybrid Approach to Upstream Requirements: IBIS and Cognitive Mapping
• From DREAM to Reality: Specificities of Interactive Systems Development With Respect To Rationale Management
• The WinWin Approach: Using a Requirements Negotiation Tool for Rationale Capture and Use
• Design Rationale in Exemplary Business Process Modeling
• Promoting and Supporting Requirements Engineering Creativity
• Design Rationale and Software Architecting
• A Framework for Supporting Architecture Knowledge and Rationale Management
• Capturing and Using Rationale for a Software Architecture
• Rationale-Based Support for Software Maintenance
• The Role of Rationale in the Design of Product Line Architectures – A Case Study from Industry
• The Role and Impact of Assumptions in Software Engineering and its Products
• Design Decisions: The Bridge between Rationale and Architecture
• Rationale for Organizing Bodies of Knowledge
• Reusable Rationale Blocks: Improving Quality and Efficiency of Design Choices
• Defining Agile Patterns
• Capturing and Reusing Rationale Associated with Requirements Engineering Process Improvement: A Case Study
• Using Patterns for Sharing Requirements Engineering Process Rationales.