Software architecture has been an active research field for nearly four decades, in which
previous studies make significant progress such as creating methods and techniques and …

A sound Decision-Making (DM) process is key to the successful governance of software
projects. In many Open Source Software Development (OSSD) communities, DM processes …

Lack of awareness and knowledge of microservices-specific security challenges and
solutions often leads to ill-informed security decisions in microservices system development …

Stakeholders make various types of decisions with respect to requirements, design,
management, and so on during the software development life cycle. Nevertheless, these …

The logic behind design decisions, called design rationale, is very valuable. In the past,
researchers have tried to automatically extract and exploit this information, but prior …

Good governance practices are pivotal to the success of Open Source Software (OSS)
projects. However, the decision‐making processes that are made available to stakeholders …

With the rate of discovered and disclosed vulnerabilities escalating, researchers have been
experimenting with machine learning to predict whether a vulnerability will be exploited …

Extracting rationale information from commit messages allows developers to better
understand a system and its past development. Here we present our ongoing work on the …

During the elicitation and implementation of requirements, the involved stakeholders make
decisions and build up important decision knowledge, which they should make explicit and …

Software developers often have to make many design decisions. The underlying logic
behind these decisions, also called design rationale, represents beneficial and valuable …