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Selected:Views and Beyond Architecture Decision Record Fault Isolation ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Architecture Views and Beyond	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Engineering Fault Isolation	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	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.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage	15-45 min	30-180 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	1-4	1-3	1-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	ADR File, Decision Log, 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	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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