Portability

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Resource Core

Record: architecture:portability

Severity: contextual

Scope: application, infrastructure, runtime

Canonical: Ontology

The degree to which software runs on another platform or environment without code changes.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Verification and before Platform Independence.

Requires

• Abstraction
• Standards

Reinforces

• Replaceability

Enables

• Platform Migration

Conflicts with

• Platform-Specific Coupling

In tension with

• Platform Optimization

Tensions

• Portability / Platform Optimization

Violated by

• Platform-Specific Coupling

Refactored by

• Extract Adapter
• Introduce Port

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment

Enforced by

• rules/eslint/no-runtime-absent-member.eslint.rule.ts

Reinforced by

• Interoperability
• Platform Independence
• Containerization
• Protocol Independence
• Configuration Externalization
• Low Coupling
• Independence
• Case Dialect

Linked from

• Semantic operations
• The behavior document
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Core Modular Design
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• Core Vocabulary
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Severity levels
• The resolutions