Risk Analysis and Quality Attributes

Summary

This chapter extends the ATAM methodology to cover risk analysis and the full spectrum of quality attributes used to evaluate trust architectures. Students will learn to identify architecture risks, organize them into risk themes, develop mitigation strategies, and evaluate systems against security, performance, availability, reliability, modifiability, and maintainability attributes. These skills enable structured comparison of blockchain vs. traditional approaches.

Concepts Covered

This chapter covers the following 12 concepts from the learning graph:

  1. Architecture Risk
  2. Risk Identification
  3. Risk Theme
  4. Risk Mitigation
  5. Stakeholder Analysis
  6. Non-Functional Requirement
  7. Security Attribute
  8. Availability Attribute
  9. Reliability
  10. Modifiability
  11. Maintainability
  12. Stakeholder Buy-In

Prerequisites

This chapter builds on concepts from:


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