Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition

Appendix

Tactics-Based Questionnaires

This appendix provides a set of tactics-based questionnaires for the ten most important and widely used quality attributes: availability, deployability, energy efficiency, interoperability, modifiability, performance, safety, security, testability, and usability. These questionnaires could be used by an analyst, who poses each question, in turn, to the architect and records the responses, as a means of conducting a lightweight architecture review. Alternatively, the questionnaires could be employed as a set of reflective questions that you could, on your own, use to examine your architectural choices.

In either case, to use these questionnaires, simply follow these four steps:

1. For each tactics question, ...