Design Decisions in the Architecture Development of Advanced Systems: Towards traceable and sustainable Documentation and Communication
Stefan Achilles Pfeifer, Didem Akgül, Silke Röbenack, Amelie Tihlarik, Bruno Albert, Harald Anacker, Roman Dumitrescu · 2022
Documenting and communicating decisions is paramount during the system architecture development of Advanced Systems. Reporting design decisions properly is important since they allow decisions to remain traceable. Collaboration platforms could significantly help documenting and communicating design decisions. Developers however lack methodological support for using them. We held semi-structured interviews with company representatives to identify problems in these activities. In this paper we report our findings and use them to develop a preliminary support methodology.