1. Concerns ⊃ Qualities ⊃ Characteristics
Concerns
Concern: interest in a system relevant to one or more Benefits
of its stakeholders Usage Customer
Purpose
Experience
A concern pertains to any influence on a system in its
Licensing
environment, including developmental, technological, Compliance Trust
business, operational, organizational, political, economic,
legal, regulatory, ecological and social influences. Business Goals
System qualities
Source: ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010: 2011, System and Accuracy Maintainability
software engineering—Architecture description Performance
Complexity
Technology Scalability
Constraints Resource
Usability Utilization
System characteristics
Stability Behavior
Structure
Functionality
A simple hierarchy of Concerns.
with example Concerns in blue...
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