# Feature-Only Design

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

Record: `architecture:feature-only-design`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Enforcement Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/enforcement-core.md)
Severity: discouraged
Scope: security_governance, performance_scaling
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-feature-only-design

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Architecture Astronaut](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/architecture-astronaut.md) and before [Test Pyramid Inversion](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/test-pyramid-inversion.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: define_quality_scenarios, add_fitness_functions, [architecture_review](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/architecture-review.md), risk_register
- Detected by: no_SLOs, no_security_review, no_operability_requirements, quality_attribute_absent_from_ADR
- Violated by: Optimize architecture for immediate feature delivery while ignoring quality attributes such as security, operability, scalability, maintainability, and evolvability.
- Measured by: quality attributes absent from decisions, services without SLOs
- Enforced by: architecture review with quality scenarios, SLO gates

## Severity

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

## Category

- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/anti-patterns.md)

## Force

- [Performance scaling](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/performance-scaling.md)
- [Security governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/security-governance.md)

## Negated by

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

## Linked from

- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md)
- [Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-architecture-review-evolution-governance-artifacts.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)