August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Quality attribute scenarios
Quality attributes are measurable properties of a software system. They are the ilities, such as maintainability, usability, testability, and interoperability. We have been stressing the importance of quality attributes since they play such an important part in the success of software systems, and because software architecture decisions will affect them.
This makes quality attributes one of the main architectural drivers for software architecture design. The design decisions that are made will determine what quality attributes will be met. As an architectural driver, quality attributes are typically described in the context of a particular scenario.
A quality attribute scenario is a short description of how the ...