Software and Systems Architecture in Action

Chapter 4

Getting Ready for Designing the Architecture

4.1 Introduction

The previous chapters focused on obtaining a good set of requirements that clearly establish the business need for the system under consideration and the qualities and functional capabilities this system must have to fulfill this need within the confines of a given a set of constraints. Of these requirements, the quality attribute scenarios developed from the business goals or mission objectives play the most significant role in the development of the architecture. However, operational scenarios for functional capabilities and the constraints may also have implied quality concerns that can have an impact on the architecture of a system and should be taken into account as ...