Abstract:Design rationale refers to the explicit documentation of the reasons design decisions are made, the alternative design options considered, and the justification supporting these decisions. If properly recorded during the software development life cycle, design rationale documentation can be extremely useful to software engineers.However, because of the costs associated with maintaining extra documentation, it is often omitted. Fortunately, design rationale is naturally embedded in other documents that are crea… Show more
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