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Selected:Hypothesis-Driven TroubleshootingViews and BeyondFault IsolationARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-240 min | 1-3 Tage | 30-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 1-4 | 1-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |