Quality Attributes

Kind: model

Layer: Performance Core

Record: architecture:quality-attributes

Severity: recommended

Scope: system, service, codebase

Canonical: Ontology

A conceptual representation of the non-functional properties a system must meet, each stated as a measurable scenario.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Fitness Functions and before Architecture Decision Records (ADR).

Requires

• Attribute Scenarios

Reinforces

• Architecture Review

Enables

• Trade-Off Analysis

Conflicts with

• Feature-Only Design

In tension with

• Competing Attributes

Tensions

• Quality Attributes / Competing Attributes

Violated by

• Feature-Only Design

Refactored by

• Quality Scenarios
• Fitness Functions

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Reinforced by

• Assessment

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Severity levels
• The resolutions