A design rationale is the explicit listing of decisions made during a design process, and the reasons why those decisions were made. Its primary goal is to support designers by providing a means to record and 展开

While argumentation formats can be traced back to Stephen Toulmin's work in the 1950s datums, claims, warrants, backings and rebuttals, the origin of design rationale can be … 展开

Design rationale has the potential to be used in many different ways. One set of uses, defined by Burge and Brown (1998), are: 展开

Books
• Burge, JE; Carroll, JM; McCall R; Mistrík I (2008). Rationale-Based Software Engineering. Heidelberg: … 展开

There are a number of ways to characterize DR approaches. Some key distinguishing features are how it is captured, how it is represented, and how it can be used.
Rationale capture
Rationale capture is the … 展开

• Goal structuring notation
• IDEF6
• Method engineering
• Problem structuring methods
• Theory of justification 展开

• Bcisive.austhink.com: A commercial software package designed for design rationale and decision rationale more broadly. Graphical interface, sharing capabilities.
• Compendium: A hypermedia tool that provides visual knowledge … 展开