(SAKM) Software Architecture Knowledge Management and its recent Practices, Models, Tools and Challenges

Management of knowledge for software architecture means to capture convenient experience and then translating it in generalized architectural knowledge. For refining the organizational architectural competences, architectural knowledge management is very much important. Architectural knowledge is valuable in the Software Architecture design process. This knowledge will help the stakeholders for communication in different phases of software development life cycle(SDLC). Properly managing the architectural knowledge is very much important as it is progressively more regarded the same as an organizational positive feature and that is why so many researchers around the world are proposing tools, methods, models and different frameworks for the effective knowledgemanagement [1]. This article contributes in exploring current work in field of software architectural knowledge management (AKM) from 2010 to 2017. This article highlights recent architectural AKM challenges and issues which are still not settled and here we also discuss different AKM tools, practicesand models