May 9
2011
2011
Measuring the Impact of Explicit Architecture Documentation
Architecture Documentation , SEI Research , Ultra Large Scale Systems 5 Comments »By Rick Kazman,
Visiting Scientist, Research Technology & System Solutions
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SEI has long advocated software architecture documentation as a
software engineering best practice. This type of documentation is not
particularly revolutionary or different from standard practices in other
engineering disciplines. For example, who would build a skyscraper
without having an architect draw up plans first? The specific value of
software architecture documentation, however, has never been established
empirically. This blog describes a research project we are conducting
to measure and understand the value of software architecture
documentation on complex software-reliant systems.
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