Quality Attributes / Competing Attributes
Kind: tension
Record: tension:competing-attributes-quality-attributes
Canonical: Schema
"quality-attributes" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Competing Attributes" (evolution-principles layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Competing Attributes" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Fitness Functions / Rule Maintenance and before Architecture Decision Records (ADR) / Documentation Maintenance.