June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
14h 20m
English
Zengyang Li1, Peng Liang2 and Paris Avgeriou1, 1University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Architectural technical debt (ATD) may be incurred when making architecture decisions. In most cases, ATD is not effectively managed in the architecting process: It is not made explicit, and architecture decision making does not consider the ATD incurred by the different design options. This chapter proposes a conceptual model of ATD and an architectural technical debt management process applying this ATD conceptual model in order to facilitate decision making in a value-oriented perspective of architecting. We also demonstrate how ATD ...