Capturing exploration to improve software architecture documentation
Moon Ting Su · 2010
To facilitate the improved use of a software architecture document (AD), architectural information it contains needs to be structured into and/or presented as chunks: groupings of related information. The focus of our study is on the identification and creation of useful chunks of architectural information in ADs and the development of support tools to create and use this knowledge. We anticipate this will help stakeholders locate required architectural information facilitating its (re-)use. The main approach employed in this study is to capture and save users' AD exploration paths and related metadata, analyzing the exploration paths to find common patterns that serve as potential chunks of architectural information and using them to improve software ADs and documentation tool. Ultimately, this research aims to achieve user-driven chunking of architectural information in AD, to support information searching and better understanding of AD.