Recent Work on Supporting Evolution of Design Decisions

Design Decisions are recently being considered as first class entities in the Software Architecture process. As the software evolves, the set of architectural decisions also evolve. These changing decisions may have a huge impact on the resulting architecture. Hence it is imperative to check for inconsistencies that may arise in the evolution process. This forms the main motivation behind our recent work on supporting architectural design decisions evolution accepted at "3rd International Workshop on
Software Engineering for Resilient Systems". This paper talks about tracing links between requirements, Architecture Design Decisions(ADDs) and artifacts and also about the relationships amongst ADDs.