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| Criterion |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Architecture arc42 |  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. | 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. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 30-180 min | 1-2 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 1-6 | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |