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concern will be scattered across multiple models and views. erefore, to understand how the
architecture achieves a mandatory level of a specific quality characteristic (e.g., interoperability,
reliability, and security) requires focusing on multiple parts of multiple views and models. is is
the rationale for also including architectural focus areas.
Architectural focus area: the documented part of an architecture that is related to a
specific architectural concern, regardless of the architectural structures in which the
architectural decisions, inventions, trade-offs, assumptions, and rationa ...