Modeling and Documenting the Evolution of Architectural Design Decisions

All software systems are built as a result of a set of design decisions that are made during the architecting phase. At present, there is still a lack of appropriate notations, methods and tools for recording and exploiting these architectural design decisions. In addition, the need for maintaining and evolving the decisions made in the past turns critical for the success of the evolution of the system. In this research paper we extend a previous work to detail those issues related to the evolution of architectural design decisions.