Feature-Only Design

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:feature-only-design

Severity: discouraged

Scope: security_governance, performance_scaling

Formed by: Optimize architecture for immediate feature delivery while ignoring quality attributes such as security, operability, scalability, maintainability, and evolvability.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which architecture serves immediate features while its quality attributes go unaddressed.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Architecture Astronaut and before Test Pyramid Inversion.

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Severity

Category

Force

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