Software architectures represent the design for describing the main parts of a software system. In software projects, different stakeholders with different roles may need to share the documentation generated during the project. Also, during the architecture construction phase we need to communicate the architecture to the stakeholders involved in the process, but the lack of tools for documenting, managing and sharing this architectural knowledge constitutes a big barrier. In other cases it can be useful to recreate the design decisions taken because such decisions are frequently lost during the development process. To cover these issues, we outline in this paper a web-based tool able to record and manage architecture design decisions.
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