Towards Software Architecture Documents matching Stakeholders' Interests

Architecture documentation is a crucial activity in any software development project. In practice, architecture documenters face two problems: how to generate relevant documentation contents for the main stakeholders, and how to avoid documenting too much about the architecture. We propose a persona...

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Autores: Nicoletti, Matías Alberto, Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres, Schiaffino, Silvia Noemi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/6834
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/6834
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Architecture Documentation
User Profiling
Text Mining
Stakeholders
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Sumario:Architecture documentation is a crucial activity in any software development project. In practice, architecture documenters face two problems: how to generate relevant documentation contents for the main stakeholders, and how to avoid documenting too much about the architecture. We propose a personalization approach based on stakeholders' interests to tackle these problems. The expected contribution is to facilitate the documenter?s tasks, while making the resulting documentation useful to the stakeholders. We specifically describe a user profiling tool that builds stakeholders? profiles, which serve to link the stakeholders to sections of the architectural documents. These links help the documenter to prioritize sections that are potentially relevant to those stakeholders. The tool has been implemented as a semi-automated pipeline based on text mining techniques. The results, although preliminary, show that our proposal is helpful for a stakeholder-centric architecture documentation process.