Quality Characteristics

Here you find a list of several quality characteristics (desirable, expected or required qualities) of IT systems.
Listed below each quality, you find related quality dimensions (tags).

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A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U V

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Access Control

#secure

Accessibility

#usable

Accountability

#secure

Accuracy

#reliable, #usable

Adaptability

#flexible, #usable

Affordability

#suitable, #usable, #efficient

Agility

#flexible

Analysability

#reliable, #maintainable

Anticipated Workplace Environment

#usable

Appearance

#usable

Appropriateness recognizability

#usable, #operable

Atomicity

#reliable

Attractiveness

#usable

Auditability

#operable

Authenticity

#secure

Autonomicity

Autonomy

#operable, #suitable

Availability

#reliable, #usable

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— B —

Backward compatibility

#usable, #operable, #reliable

Bias Mitigation

#reliable, #safe, #suitable

Budget Constraint

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— C —

Capacity

#efficient, #reliable

Carbon Efficiency

Carbon Emission Efficiency

#efficient

Certifiability

#suitable, #reliable, #safe

Change failure rate

#operable

Changeability

#flexible, #maintainable

Clarity

#usable, #reliable

Co-existence

#flexible

Code Complexity

#efficient, #usable

Code Readability

#usable, #efficient

Coherence

#usable, #efficient

Cohesion

#efficient, #suitable, #maintainable

Communicability

#usable

Compatibility

#usable, #operable, #reliable

Completeness

#reliable, #suitable

Compliance

#secure, #safe, #usable, #reliable, #efficient, #suitable

Composability

#flexible

Comprehensibility

Conciseness

#usable, #efficient

Confidentiality

#secure

Configurability

#flexible, #usable

Consistency

#usable, #efficient

Controllability

#usable, #operable

Convenience

#usable

Correctness

#usable, #reliable, #suitable

Cost

#suitable, #efficient

Credibility

#reliable

Currentness

Customizability

#flexible, #usable

Cyber Security

#secure

Cycle time

#operable, #suitable, #efficient

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— D —

DORA

Data Integrity

#reliable, #secure

Data Localization

#suitable, #secure

Data Protection

#secure

Data Quality

#reliable, #suitable, #usable

Data Residency

#suitable

Data Sovereignty

#secure, #suitable

Debuggability

#operable, #maintainable

Dependability

#reliable

Deployability

#operable, #suitable

Deployment frequency

#operable, #suitable

Determinism

#reliable, #efficient

Devops-Metrics

#operable

Diagnosability

#operable, #reliable

Discoverability

#usable

Distributability

#flexible, #efficient

Durability

#reliable

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— E —

Ease of Use

#operable, #usable

Effectiveness

#efficient

Efficiency

#efficient

Elasticity

#flexible

Energy Efficiency

#efficient

Energy Proportionality

#efficient

Eventual Consistency

Evolvability

#flexible, #maintainable

Expected physical environment

#suitable, #operable

Explainability

#safe, #suitable

Extensibility

#flexible, #maintainable

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— F —

Fail safe

#safe, #reliable

Failure Transparency

#reliable, #safe

Fairness

#reliable, #safe, #suitable

Fault isolation

#safe, #reliable

Fault tolerance

#reliable, #usable

Faultlessness

#reliable, #usable, #secure

Features

#usable

Flexibility

#flexible

Functional Appropriateness

#usable, #reliable, #suitable

Functional completeness

#usable, #reliable, #suitable

Functional Correctness

Functional suitability

#usable, #reliable, #suitable

Functionality

#usable, #reliable, #suitable

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— G —

Governability

#operable, #secure

Graceful degradation

#reliable, #usable

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— H —

Hazard warning

#safe, #reliable

High Availability

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— I —

i18n

Immunity

#secure, #reliable

Inclusivity

#usable

Independence

#flexible

Information Security

Inspectability

Installability

#operable, #flexible

Integrability

#flexible, #operable

Integrity

#secure

Interaction capability

#usable, #operable

Interchangeability

#flexible, #operable

Internationalization

#flexible, #usable

Interoperability

#usable, #operable

Intrusion Detection

#secure

Intrusion Prevention

#secure

Intuitiveness

#usable

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— J —

Jitter

#efficient, #reliable

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— L —

Latency

#efficient, #usable, #operable

Lead time for changes

#operable

Learnability

#usable, #operable

Legal Requirements

#usable, #operable

Legibility

#usable

Localizability

#flexible, #usable

Longevity

#reliable, #flexible, #maintainable

Loose Coupling

#efficient, #suitable, #maintainable

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— M —

Maintainability

#maintainable

Mean time between failures

#operable

Mean time to recovery

#operable, #suitable

Memory usage

#efficient

Modifiability

#maintainable, #flexible

Modularity

#maintainable

Mutability

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— N —

Non-repudiation

#secure

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— O —

Observability

#operable

Operability

#usable, #operable

Operational constraint

#safe, #reliable

Operational and Environment Requirements

#operable

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— P —

Patient Safety

#safe, #reliable, #secure

Performance Efficiency

Performance

#efficient

Personalization

#flexible

Policy Enforcement

Portability

#flexible, #operable

Preciseness

Precision

#reliable, #usable

Predictability

#reliable

Privacy

#secure

Profitability

#efficient

Provability

#reliable, #safe

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— R —

Readability

#usable

Recoverability

#reliable, #usable

Recovery Time

Redundancy

#reliable, #operable

Releasability

#operable, #efficient

Reliability

#reliable

Repeatability

Replaceability

#operable, #flexible

Reproducibility

#usable

Resilience

#reliable, #secure

Resistance

#secure

Resource efficiency

#efficient

Resource utilization

#efficient

Response Time

#efficient

Responsiveness

#usable, #efficient

Reusability

#flexible, #maintainable

Risk identification

#safe, #reliable

Robustness

#reliable

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Safe integration

#safe, #reliable

Safety

#safe, #reliable, #secure

Scalability

#flexible

Securability

#secure

Security

#secure, #reliable

Self-Configuring

Self-containedness

#flexible

Self-descriptiveness

#usable

Self-Healing

Self-Optimizing

Self-Protecting

Shutdown Time

#efficient

Simplicity

#efficient, #usable

Speed to Market

Speed

#efficient

Stability

#reliable

Standard Compliance

Startup Time

#efficient

Suitability

#usable, #reliable, #suitable

Supportability

Sustainability

#efficient, #reliable

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— T —

Tailorability

Test Coverage

#suitable, #maintainable

Testability

#suitable, #maintainable

Themability

#flexible, #maintainable

Throughput

#efficient

Time behaviour

#efficient

Time to Market

#efficient

Timeliness

#reliable, #suitable

Traceability

#reliable, #operable

Transactionality

#reliable

Transparency

#reliable

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— U —

Understandability

#usable, #operable

Updateability

#operable, #maintainable

Upgradeability

#operable, #maintainable

Usability

#usable, #operable

User assistance

#usable

User engagement

#usable

User error protection

#usable, #operable

User experience

#usable

User interface aesthetics

#usable

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— V —

Verifiability

#reliable, #maintainable

Versatility

#flexible, #suitable

Vulnerability

#secure, #reliable

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