12. Other Quality Attributes
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
—Aristotle
Chapters 5–11 each dealt with a particular quality attribute important to software systems. Each of those chapters discussed how its particular quality attribute is defined, gave a general scenario for that quality attribute, and showed how to write specific scenarios to express precise shades of meaning concerning that quality attribute. And each gave a collection of techniques to achieve that quality attribute in an architecture. In short, each chapter presented a kind of portfolio for specifying and designing to achieve a particular quality attribute.
Those seven chapters covered seven of the most important quality attributes, in terms of their occurrence in modern ...
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