5.16 Nonfunctional Requirements of Distributed Applications
There are a number of common nonfunctional requirements of distributed applications, most of which have already been mentioned several times in various contexts in the book. Here, they are related and differentiated.
Robustness. This is a fundamental requirement of almost all distributed applications, although it can be interpreted in different ways. Robustness in the sense that there are no failures at the component level is unrealistic because no matter how well designed your software is, there are always external factors that can interrupt the operation of a distributed application. Examples include excessive network traffic causing delay or a time-out, a network failure isolating ...
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