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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures
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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

by Donald G. Firesmith, Peter Capell, Dietrich Falkenthal, Charles B. Hammons, DeWitt T. Latimer IV, Tom Merendino
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
512 pages
19h 52m
English
Auerbach Publications
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responsibilities of architects is to review the requirements for their adequacy with regard to archi-
tecturally significant requirements, especially the quality requirements.
Architectural quality cases are a way for the architects to make their case (e.g., to assessors
and architecture stakeholders) that their architecture adequately supports the meeting of quality-
related requirements. Quality cases consist of the following three components: (1) claims (that the
architecture is good enough — sufficiently supports a specific type of quality requirement); (2)
clear and compelling arguments (e.g., architectural decisions, inventions, trade-offs, assumptions,
and rationales); and (3
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ISBN: 9781420085761