End-to-End Traceability

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:end-to-end-traceability

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which decomposing flow into independent filters makes tracing a request end to end harder.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Anemic Layers and before Feature Cohesion.

Category

• Codebase / System Architecture Styles

In tension with

• Pipes and Filters
• Pipes and Filters / End-to-End Traceability

Linked from

• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• The resolutions