August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Architectural concerns
Architectural concerns are interests of the software architect that impact the software architecture. As a result, they are an architectural driver. Just as functional requirements and quality attributes are design issues important to stakeholders, architectural concerns are design issues important to the software architect.
Architectural concerns need to be considered part of the design, but are not captured as functional requirements. In some cases, they may be captured as quality attributes rather than architectural concerns, or an architectural concern may lead to new quality attribute scenarios that need to be met.
For example, a software architect may have concerns related to software instrumentation or logging. ...