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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Change AnalysisFault IsolationHypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Operations Change Analysis |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-120 min | 30-180 min | 30-240 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 | 1-6 | 1-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Change Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis |