Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition

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Working with Other Quality Attributes

Quality is not what happens when what you do matches your intentions. It is what happens when what you do matches your customers’ expectations.

—Guaspari

Chapters 4–13 each dealt with a particular quality attribute (QA) that is important to software systems. Each of those chapters discussed how its particular QA is defined, gave a general scenario for that QA, and showed how to write specific scenarios to express precise shades of meaning concerning that QA. In addition, each provided a collection of techniques to achieve that QA in an architecture. In short, each chapter presented a kind of portfolio for specifying and designing to achieve a particular QA.

However, as you can no doubt infer, those ten ...