Rationale Management in Software Engineering

By: Allen H. Dutoit (Editor), Raymond McCall (Editor), Ivan Mistrik (Editor)

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Hardcover | 6 April 2006

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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 want something other than an alphabetic list of function definitions was just taking hold. There was an exciting (to me) vision of stakeholders accessing and contributing to explanations of how and why aspects of a system work as they do, tradeoff analysis of concomitant downsides, and perhaps even accounts of why other possible approaches were not followed. There were many challenges to overcome in achieving this vision. The most formidable is the belief that people do not like to create or use do- mentation. This negative image of documentation is (unfortunately) more than just the bias of a few incorrigible system developers. It is more like a deep truth about human information behavior, about how human beings construe and act towards information. Humans are, by default, active users of information; they want to try things out, and get things done. When documentation is interposed as a prerequisite between people and a desired activity, they try to skip through it, circumvent it, or undermine it. Desi- ing information to suit the needs and interests of its users is an abiding challenge, but we have come a long way from functional specifications as the only answer.

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Ten years ago, with Tom Moran, I edited a book entitled "Design Rationale." I think that book has held up quite well, though a decade onward it does seem a bit prefatory. It is past time for another detailed summary of research on design rationale. Allen Dutoit, Ray McCall, Ivan Mistrik and Barbara Paech have done an excellent job of this in "Rationale management in software engineering." The chapters in this volume show how design rationale can be incorporated into the heart of the software development process - into requirements engineering, software architecture, and code design. (John Carroll, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, USA)

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Rationale management in software engineering : concepts and techniques	p. 1
Fundamentals - rationale representation, capture and use	p. 49
Three studies of design rationale as explanation	p. 53
Effective design rationale : understanding the barriers	p. 73
Rationale as a by-product	p. 91
Hypermedia support for argumentation-based rationale : 15 years on from gIBIS and QOC	p. 111
Rationale management for requirements engineering	p. 133
A hybrid approach to upstream requirements : IBIS and cognitive mapping	p. 137
From DREAM to reality : specificities of interactive systems development with respect to rationale management	p. 155
The WinWin approach : using a requirements negotiation tool for rationale capture and use	p. 173
Design rationale in exemplary business process modeling	p. 191
Promoting and supporting requirements engineering creativity	p. 209
Design rationale and software architecting	p. 231
A framework for supporting architecture knowledge and rationale management	p. 237
Capturing and using rationale for a software architecture	p. 255
Rationale-based support for software maintenance	p. 273
The role of rationale in the design of product line architectures - a case study from industry	p. 297
The role and impact of assumptions in software engineering and its products	p. 313
Design decisions : the bridge between rationale and architecture	p. 329
Rationale for organizing bodies of knowledge	p. 349
Reusable rationale blocks : improving quality and efficiency of design choices	p. 353
Defining agile patterns	p. 373
Capturing and reusing rationale associated with requirements engineering process improvement : a case study	p. 391
Using patterns for sharing requirements engineering process rationales	p. 409
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