A Design Recording Framework to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Software Engineering

This paper describes an environment that allows a development team to share knowledge about software artefacts by recording decisions and rationales as well as supporting the team in formulating and maintaining design constraints. It explores the use of multi-dimensional design spaces for capturing various issues arising during development and presenting this meta-information using a network of views. It describes a framework to underlie the collaborative environment and shows the supporting architecture and its implementation. It addresses how the artefacts and their meta-information are captured in a non-invasive way and shows how an artefact repository is embedded to store
and manage the artefacts.

Citation:
Boldyreff, C. et al (2009) “A Design Recording Framework to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Software Engineering” In: Chu, W. (ed) 2nd IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing, 17-19 November 2003, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. ACTA Press pp 70-88.