Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World

This report compares the Software Engineering Institute's Views and Beyond approach for documenting software architectures with the documentation philosophy embodied in agile software-development methods. This report proposes an approach for capturing architecture information in a way that is consistent with agile methods.

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Authors

Paul C. Clements

James Ivers

Reed Little

Judith A. Stafford

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Software Architecture

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023
July 2003

Cite This Report

SEI:

Clements, Paul; Ivers, James; Little, M.; & Stafford, Judith. Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World (CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn023.cfm

IEEE:

P. Clements, J. Ivers, M. Little, and J. Stafford, "Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn023.cfm

APA:

Clements, P., Ivers, J., Little, M., & Stafford, J. (2003). Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World (CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023). Retrieved May 24, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn023.cfm

CHI:

Clements, Paul, James Ivers, M. Little, and Judith Stafford. Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World (CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn023.cfm

MLA:

Clements, P., Ivers, J., Little, M., & Stafford, J. 2003. Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn023.cfm

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