layout: post title: Architectural Awareness description: “Architectural Awareness” author: jens_nerche tags: [Java, arc42, jQAssistant, Architecture]

Where I am? Architectural artifact What are my neighbors?

• Who depend I on
• Who depends on me
• neighbor modules/slices/layers/components Documentation for current class and module TODOs and FIXMEs in current class and module style problems (Checkstyle, PMD) Bugs (FindBugs, PMD, Checkstyle) Architecture and Design violations (jQA) last activities on this class (Git) Toxicity in relation to average and target Contained in last tickets (ticket system) Test coverage (jacoco) Code Review information: comments, status (AgileReview)

How to achieve? What is the best representation? Where to put the information?