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

Criterion	Architecture Views and Beyond	Engineering Fault Isolation	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage	30-180 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	1-4	1-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async
Outputdifferent	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	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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