Architectural Consistency

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: architecture:architectural-consistency

Severity: mandatory

Scope: system, codebase

Canonical: Ontology

The degree to which the code follows the system's declared boundaries, layers and dependency rules.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Pattern Consistency and before Standardization.

Requires

• Architecture Rules
• Governance

Reinforces

• Pattern Consistency

Enables

• Predictable Evolution

Conflicts with

• Architecture Drift

In tension with

• Local Autonomy

Tensions

• Architectural Consistency / Local Autonomy

Contracts

• Architectural Relationship Algebra

Violated by

• Architecture Drift

Refactored by

• Architecture Test

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Reinforced by

• Architecture Review

Linked from

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Architecture relationships
• Severity levels
• The resolutions