Assessment

Kind: activity

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: architecture:assessment

Severity: recommended

Scope: codebase, architecture, risk

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of evaluating a codebase or architecture against stated criteria, using collected evidence.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Backpressure and before Architecture Review.

Requires

• Criteria
• Evidence

Reinforces

• Governance
• Quality Attributes

Enables

• Prioritized Refactoring

Conflicts with

• Assumption-Based Judgment

In tension with

• Time Cost

Tensions

• Assessment / Time Cost

Violated by

• Assumption-Based Judgment

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Linked from

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