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Preserving and reusing architectural design decisions van der Ven, Jan
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List of Tables
1.1 Historical Change in Software Engineering and Architecture . . . . 3
1.2 Structure of this Thesis . . . 13
4.1 Experimental design: #subjects per situation . . . 78
4.2 Ratings of reviewer comments of the first hour . . . 79
4.3 Confidence levels for H1and H02 . . . 84
4.4 Confidence levels for H3and H4 . . . 85
5.1 Overview of Case Studies . . . 107
5.2 Mapping the Cases on the Triple-A Framework . . . 108
6.1 Overview of Conclusions on Beliefs . . . 125
6.2 Project and Person Characteristics . . . 129
6.3 Success Factors . . . 130 6.4 Triple-A Framework . . . 131 7.1 Interview Questions . . . 140 7.2 Overview Companies . . . 141 7.3 Overview of Pivots . . . 143 7.4 Concept Comparison . . . 145
8.1 Reflection of Decisions in Version Management . . . 155
8.2 Project Availability of Programming Languages . . . 164
8.3 Ease of Mining of Programming Languages . . . 165
8.4 Programming Language Component Ecosystem . . . 165
8.5 Summary of Programming Language Suitability . . . 166
8.6 Acquired Data . . . 167
8.7 Number of Deltas Identified . . . 169
8.8 Summary of CDS Growth . . . 169
8.9 Quantitative Results . . . 170
8.10 Results of Email Experiment . . . 173
