Chapter 4: Assuring the Quality of the API Service (or Product)

All software engineering teams strive to create a quality product as an output from the weeks of planning, designing, developing, and testing cycles. This, however, is not possible unless there is a clear and common understanding of the quality goals (or attributes) of the product under development.

A product backlog in the form of architecture backlog stories must be created and prioritized in a timely fashion to accomplish the targets/metrics set for these quality attributes. Otherwise, late discovery of critical issues, and subsequent fixing at a later stage in the project lifecycle, will turn out to be very costly.

The purpose of this chapter is to understand the important ...

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