Book Reviews: Design rationale: concepts, techniques, and Use. Thomas P. Moran and John m. Carroll

摘要

The concept of design rationale has emerged over the last decade as attention focused on the reasons and criteria unerly- ing any application's design and development. In general terms, a design rational is a description of the development of an artifact that goes beyond the record of its specification and testing, for example, to include details of why it was designed to operate one way rather than another, what trade-odds were made, what motivated the design team to include certain fea- tures or to drop others, or what mistakes or errors were made along the way.