Quality attributes are properties of a software system and a subset of its non-functional requirements. Like other requirements, they should be measurable and testable. Software quality attributes are benchmarks that describe the software system's quality and measure the fitness of the system. A software system is made up of a combination of quality attributes, and the degree to which they are fulfilled describes the overall quality of the software.
Quality attributes can have a significant impact on the design of the architecture, so they are of great interest to software architects. They affect multiple facets of a software system, such as its design, degree of maintainability, runtime behavior, and the overall user experience.
When designing your architecture, it is imperative to understand that software quality attributes can affect each other, and...
