Document an aspect of your architecture. Something orthogonal or cross-functional like logging, exception handling or configurability.
Description
Documents an orthogonal or cross-cutting concern for the architecture of the system. By describing these aspects in their own documents, components applying those concerns may just reference them.
Examples for architecture aspects are:
- Logging
- Exception Handling
- Component Configuration
- Monitoring
Properties
The document type architecture aspect provides the following properties:
Sections
Description
A detailed description of the architecture aspect.
Add any additional sections to this one (if required) to document details on the aspect.
Motivation
Quality Scenarios
Quality scenarios document the important quality aspects of the architecure aspect. Add a reference to a quality scenario document for each important quality of the aspect.
Use Cases
Use cases allow to define how the aspect is used.
Solution
Constraints
List the constraints that limit the solution space for the aspect.
Decisions
The design or implementation of an architecture aspect may be based on some decisions. List those that are important to understand the aspect.
Application
Provide information about how to apply the solution.
Discussion
Discuss open issues and provide an overview over possible next steps.
Subordinate Aspects
Divide a complex aspect into smaller parts.
Notes
These are internal notes that are usually not exported and only visible to team members with write access.
But this is not a safe place to store sensible information. It is just a convenience for the reader to not be bothered with notes stored here for the authors for later use. The security level is about suppressing the representation by a CSS style. Therefore consider this as a convenience for the reader, not as a security tool.
References
For a document the references section contains pointers to resources that prove the statements of the document.
Often these proofs are not easily distinguishable from further information. In this case you may want to skip the reference section in favour for the resource list.
Resources
The resources section provides references to further information to the topic of the document.
This may be information on the internet provided by the resource or information in the team's information systems. Anything the reader of the resource might want to know, may be listed here.
