A Rationale Focused Software Architecture Documentation method (RFSAD)

Abstract: Software architecture plays a vital role in software development, and so does software architecture documentation. Practitioners have been documenting architectures for many years, but researchers have started pointing out problems in software architecture documentation, which in their point of view are hindering true benefits of architecture documentation to reach the industry. In this thesis the problems associated with software architecture documentation are described, and a new method to document software architecture (Rationale Focused Software Architecture Documentation (RFSAD)) is proposed to address those mentioned problems.