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March/April 2009 (vol. 26 no. 2)
pp. 25-27
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Uwe Zdun, "Guest Editor's Introduction: Capturing Design Knowledge," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 25-27, March/April, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2009.37,
author = {Uwe Zdun},
title = {Guest Editor's Introduction: Capturing Design Knowledge},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {26},
number = {2},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2009},
pages = {25-27},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2009.37},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Technology
Capturing software design knowledge is important because it tends to evaporate as software systems evolve. This has severe consequences for many software projects. To counteract this phenomenon, effective, systematic documentation of design knowledge is important. However, many proposed approaches for capturing design knowledge are still experimental or in an early-adoption stage. In this article, we discuss existing and new approaches to deal with parts of the knowledge evaporation problem.

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Index Terms:
design knowledge, design knowledge evaporation, architectural knowledge
Citation:
Uwe Zdun, "Guest Editor's Introduction: Capturing Design Knowledge," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 25-27, March-April 2009, doi:10.1109/MS.2009.37
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