id: 05976049
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an: 05976049
au: de Silva, Lakshitha; Balasubramaniam, Dharini
ti: A model for specifying rationale using an architecture description
    language.
so: Crnkovic, Ivica (ed.) et al., Software architecture. 5th European
    conference, ECSA 2011, Essen, Germany, September 13‒16, 2011.
    Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-23797-3/pbk). Lecture
    Notes in Computer Science 6903, 319-327 (2011).
py: 2011
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23798-0_34
ab: Summary: Besides structural and behavioural properties, rationale plays a
    crucial role in defining the architecture of a software system.
    However, unlike other architectural features, rationale often remains
    unspecified and inaccessible to tools. Existing approaches for
    recording rationale are not widely adopted. This paper proposes a
    simple model for capturing rationales as part of an architecture
    specification and attaching them to elements in the architecture. The
    bi-directional links between rationales and elements enable forward and
    backward traceability. We describe a textual architecture description
    language named Grasp that implements this model, and illustrate its
    capabilities using an example.
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