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Smart decisions: an architectural design game

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Humberto Cervantes,

Serge Haziyev,

Olha Hrytsay,

Rick KazmanAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '16: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

Pages 327 - 335

https://doi.org/10.1145/2889160.2889184

Published: 14 May 2016 Publication History

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Architecture design is notoriously difficult to teach and to learn. Most competent architects in industry have deep knowledge won from long years of experience. But if we want architecture design to be methodical and repeatable, we need better methods for teaching it. Simply waiting for an aspiring architect to accumulate 10 or 20 years of experience is not acceptable if we believe that software engineering is a true engineering discipline. In this paper we describe our experiences with the development of a game that aids in teaching architecture design, specifically design employing the Attribute-Driven Design method. We discuss our approach to creating the game, and the "design concepts catalog" that provides the knowledge base for the game. Finally, we report on our experiences with deploying the game, and the (enthusiastic) assessments and feedback that we have received from industrial and academic participants.

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Smart decisions: an architectural design game
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software design engineering
    2. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
        Design patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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ICSE '16: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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946 pages

ISBN:9781450342056

DOI:10.1145/2889160

General Chair:
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Michigan State University
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Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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North Carolina State University

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