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Collaborative Software Architecting Through Knowledge Sharing

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In the field of software architecture, there has been a paradigm shift from describing the outcome of the architecting process to documenting architectural knowledge, such as design decisions and rationale. Moreover, in a global, distributed setting, software architecting is essentially a collaborative process in which sharing and reusing architectural knowledge is a crucial and indispensible part. Although the importance of architectural knowledge has been recognized for a considerable period of time, there is still no systematic process emphasizing the use of architectural knowledge in a collaborative context. In this chapter, we present a two-part solution to this problem: a collaborative architecting process based on architectural knowledge and an accompanying tool suite that demonstrates one way to support the process.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Part of the tool suite can be downloaded from http://search.cs.rug.nl/griffin

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    GRIFFIN: a GRId For inFormatIoN about architectural knowledge, http://griffin.cs.vu.nl/

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    http://www.openrdf.org/

  4. 4.

    If there is no explicit specification, we assume that the AK domain model employed in various requirements engineering and architecting activities for producing and consuming AK is the same one, so that all stakeholders can communicate the AK in a common language.

  5. 5.

    The collaboration between other stakeholders is also critical, e.g., between the telescope user and requirements engineer, but we focus on the requirements engineer and architect in the scope of this chapter.

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Acknowledgments

This research has been partially sponsored by the Dutch Joint Academic and Commercial Quality Research & Development (Jacquard) program on Software Engineering Research via contract 638.001.406 GRIFFIN: a GRId For inFormatIoN about architectural knowledge. The authors would like to thank Astron for their support and access to the LOFAR software architecture documents.

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Liang, P., Jansen, A., Avgeriou, P. (2010). Collaborative Software Architecting Through Knowledge Sharing. In: Mistrík, I., Grundy, J., Hoek, A., Whitehead, J. (eds) Collaborative Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10294-3_17

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