# Assessment

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

Record: `architecture:assessment`
Kind: activity
Layer: [Evolution Principles](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/evolution-principles.md)
Severity: recommended
Scope: codebase, architecture, risk
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-assessment

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Backpressure](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/backpressure.md) and before [Architecture Review](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/architecture-review.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: Add Assessment Checklist/Report
- Detected by: missing evaluation artifacts
- Violated by: decisions without assessment criteria
- Measured by: assessment coverage
- Enforced by: review process

## Requires

- [Criteria](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/criteria.md)
- [Evidence](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/evidence.md)

## Reinforces

- [Governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/governance.md)
- [Quality Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/quality-attributes.md)

## Enables

- [Prioritized Refactoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/prioritized-refactoring.md)

## Conflicts with

- [Assumption-Based Judgment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/assumption-based-judgment.md)

## In tension with

- [Time Cost](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/time-cost.md)

## Tensions

- [Assessment / Time Cost](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/assessment-time-cost.md)

## Severity

- [recommended](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-recommended.md)

## Category

- [Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/architecture-review-evolution-governance-artifacts.md)

## Linked from

- [Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-architecture-review-evolution-governance-artifacts.md)
- [Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-security-privacy-compliance-governance.md)
- [Architecture Review Evolution Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-architecture-review-evolution-governance.md)
- [Core Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-core-vocabulary.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)