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Our mission at the Software Technology Program at MCC is to significantly improve the quality and productivity of large complex software design. One approach to achieving this goal is to record the rationale and process of early project decisions.(1) A complex web of issues, problems, decisions, requirements, rationale, and alternative behaviors—the “issue base”—is built as a software project develops. This issue base can later be explored by newcomers to a project or old-timers who have forgotten why some decision was made. Furthermore, changes in requirements might be propagated and understood in terms of their effects on design decisions.
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Bridgeland, D. (1990). Simulacrum: A System Behavior Example Editor. In: Ichikawa, T., Jungert, E., Korfhage, R.R. (eds) Visual Languages and Applications. Languages and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0569-9_11
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