Part Two: Quality Attributes
In Part II, we provide the technical foundations for you to design or analyze an architecture to achieve particular quality attributes. We do not discuss design or analysis processes here; we cover those topics in Part III. It is impossible, however, to understand how to improve the performance of a design, for example, without understanding something about performance.
In Chapter 4 we describe how to specify a quality attribute requirement and motivate design techniques called tactics to enable you to achieve a particular quality attribute requirement. We also enumerate seven categories of design decisions. These are categories of decisions that are universally important, and so we provide material to help an architect ...
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