Architectural perspectives

Architectural perspective - it is a collection of guidelines, activities, tactics which need to meet requirements to quality attributes. The quality attributes require consideration across a number of the system's views.

Question addressed by perspectives are often referred as NFR.

Perspectives - Security - Perfomance - Scalability - Availability - Resilience - Evolution - Regulation

The perspective definitions: - Applicability - which of views are more affected by the perspective - Concerns - explain what quality attributes the perspective addresses - Activities - the steps for applying the perspective - Tactics - established and proven approach to help achieve a particular quality attribute - Problems and pitfalls - the most common things than can go wrong and gives guidance how recognise and avoid them. - Checklists - a list of questions which help you make sure you have addressed the most important concerns, considerate the most appropriate tactics, and avoided the most common pitfalls - Further reading - provides a number of pointers to further information

References

1. Software System Architecture Nick Rozanski, Edin Woods (software-systems-architecture-rozanski-woods), page 41-43