Capturing tacit architectural knowledge using the repertory grid technique (NIER track)

• Published in: 2011 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 916 - 919
• Main Authors: Tofan, Dan, Galster, Matthias, Avgeriou, Paris
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 21.05.2011; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Encoding; Knowledge engineering; Psychology; repertory grid; Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software; Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software architectures; Software architecture; tacit architecture knowledge; software architecture; tacit architecture knowledge; repertory grid

Knowledge about the architecture of a software-intensive system tends to vaporize easily. This leads to increased maintenance costs. We explore a new idea: utilizing the repertory grid technique to capture tacit architectural knowledge. Particularly, we investigate the elicitation of design decision...