1 Introduction

Table of Contents

• 1.1 Requirements Overview
• 1.2 References
• 1.3 Quality goals
• 1.4 Stakeholders

Describes the relevant requirements and the driving forces that software architects and development team must consider. These include

• underlying business goals, essential features and functional requirements for the system,
• quality goals for the architecture,
• relevant stakeholders and their expectations

1.1 Requirements Overview

Short description of the functional requirements, driving forces, extract (or abstract) of requirements. Link to (hopefully existing) requirements documents (with version number and information where to find it).

From the point of view of the end users a system is created or modified to improve support of a business activity and/or improve the quality.

1.2 References

#	Reference
1	XXX
2	XXX

1.3 Quality goals

Please consult ISO 25010 for an overview.

• Reliability
• Availability
• Maintainability
• Safety
• Transferability
• Performance and Efficiency
• Operability/Usability
• Security
• Testability
• Modifiability
• Portability

#	Quality	Motivation
1	2	3

1.4 Stakeholders

Explicit overview of stakeholders of the system, i.e. all person, roles or organizations that

• should know the architecture
• have to be convinced of the architecture
• have to work with the architecture or with code
• need the documentation of the architecture for their work
• have to come up with decisions about the system or its development

Role	Name	Expectations
1