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Title | ||
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Bridging the gap between software architecture rationale formalisms and actual architecture documents: An ontology-driven approach |
Abstract | ||
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Documenting software architecture rationale is essential to reuse and evaluate architectures, and several modeling and documentation guidelines have been proposed in the literature. However, in practice creating and updating these documents rarely is a primary activity in most software projects, and rationale remains hidden in casual and semi-structured records, such as e-mails, meeting notes, wikis, and specialized documents. This paper describes the TREx (Toeska Rationale Extraction) approach to recover, represent and explore rationale information from text documents, combining: (1) pattern-based information extraction to recover rationale; (2) ontology-based representation of rationale and architectural concepts; and (3) facet-based interactive exploration of rationale. Initial results from TREx's application suggest that some kinds of architecture rationale can be semi-automatically extracted from a project's unstructured text documents, namely decisions, alternatives and requirements. The approach and some tools are illustrated with a case study of rationale recovery for a financial securities settlement system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1016/j.scico.2010.06.009 | Sci. Comput. Program. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
rationale information,documenting software architecture rationale,software project,architectural concept,unstructured text document,software architecture,text document,actual architecture document,pattern-based information extraction,ontology-driven approach,software architecture rationale formalisms,toeska rationale extraction,architecture rationale,rationale recovering,design rationale,ontology,semantic indexing,rationale recovery | Ontology,Architecture,Programming language,Software engineering,Computer science,Software,Information extraction,Software architecture,Documentation,Design rationale,Database,IDEF6 | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
77 | 1 | Science of Computer Programming |
Citations | PageRank | References |
22 | 0.95 | 35 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claudia López | 1 | 145 | 17.21 |
| Víctor Codocedo | 2 | 96 | 13.46 |
| Hernán Astudillo | 3 | 264 | 36.77 |
| Luiz Marcio Cysneiros | 4 | 491 | 41.96 |