Quality Characteristics Definitions, aliases, related qualities, and the standards that back them up. Use dimension filters and A-Z jump links to narrow the list. 191 qualities, 37 aliases, across 9 dimensions. Dimensions Jump to Letter Quality Characteristics No-JS Fallback alphabetic list of canonical and alias terms A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U V I — A — Access Control related: 7 standards: 7 #secure Accessibility related: 4 standards: 6 #usable Accountability related: 6 standards: 16 #secure Accuracy related: 4 standards: 4 #reliable, #usable Adaptability related: 7 standards: 1 #flexible, #usable Affordability related: 3 standards: 0 #suitable, #usable, #efficient Agility related: 5 standards: 0 #flexible Analysability related: 5 standards: 3 #reliable, #maintainable Anticipated Workplace Environment related: 2 standards: 0 #usable Appearance related: 5 standards: 0 #usable Appropriateness recognizability related: 7 standards: 1 #usable, #operable Atomicity related: 5 standards: 0 #reliable Attractiveness related: 6 standards: 0 #usable Auditability related: 7 standards: 20 #operable Authenticity related: 5 standards: 9 #secure Autonomicity alias of Autonomy Autonomy related: 10 standards: 1 #operable, #suitable Availability related: 11 standards: 16 #reliable, #usable Return to top — B — Backward compatibility related: 5 standards: 0 #usable, #operable, #reliable Bias Mitigation related: 6 standards: 2 #reliable, #safe, #suitable Budget Constraint alias of Affordability Return to top — C — Calibration related: 8 standards: 2 #reliable, #suitable Capacity related: 5 standards: 2 #efficient, #reliable Carbon Efficiency alias of Carbon Emission Efficiency Carbon Emission Efficiency related: 2 standards: 0 #efficient Certifiability related: 7 standards: 5 #suitable, #reliable, #safe Change failure rate related: 7 standards: 0 #operable Changeability related: 7 standards: 0 #flexible, #maintainable Clarity related: 5 standards: 4 #usable, #reliable Co-existence related: 3 standards: 1 #flexible Code Complexity related: 7 standards: 0 #efficient, #usable Code Readability related: 6 standards: 0 #usable, #efficient Coherence related: 5 standards: 3 #usable, #maintainable Cohesion related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient, #suitable, #maintainable Communicability related: 5 standards: 2 #usable Compatibility related: 3 standards: 6 #usable, #operable, #reliable Completeness related: 5 standards: 3 #reliable, #suitable Compliance related: 10 standards: 17 #secure, #safe, #usable, #reliable, #efficient, #suitable Composability related: 5 standards: 0 #flexible Comprehensibility alias of Understandability Conciseness related: 3 standards: 2 #usable, #efficient Confidentiality related: 5 standards: 16 #secure Configurability related: 6 standards: 2 #flexible, #usable Consent Management related: 5 standards: 3 #secure, #usable Consistency related: 6 standards: 9 #usable, #efficient Controllability related: 7 standards: 4 #usable, #operable Convenience related: 3 standards: 0 #usable Correctness related: 7 standards: 6 #usable, #reliable, #suitable Cost related: 2 standards: 0 #suitable, #efficient Credibility related: 3 standards: 1 #reliable Currentness alias of Timeliness Customizability related: 5 standards: 0 #flexible, #usable Cyber Security related: 4 standards: 0 #secure Cycle time related: 5 standards: 0 #operable, #suitable, #efficient Return to top — D — DORA alias of Devops-Metrics Data Integrity related: 8 standards: 13 #reliable, #secure Data Localization related: 4 standards: 0 #suitable, #secure Data Minimization related: 4 standards: 3 #secure Data Protection related: 5 standards: 3 #secure Data Quality related: 6 standards: 8 #reliable, #suitable, #usable Data Residency related: 4 standards: 2 #suitable Data Sovereignty related: 6 standards: 2 #secure, #suitable Debuggability related: 6 standards: 0 #operable, #maintainable Dependability related: 4 standards: 3 #reliable Deployability related: 5 standards: 1 #operable, #suitable Deployment frequency related: 7 standards: 0 #operable, #suitable Determinism related: 7 standards: 0 #reliable, #efficient Devops-Metrics related: 5 standards: 0 #operable Diagnosability related: 5 standards: 0 #operable, #reliable Discoverability related: 3 standards: 0 #usable Distributability related: 6 standards: 0 #flexible, #efficient Drift Detectability related: 9 standards: 3 #reliable, #operable Durability related: 7 standards: 0 #reliable Return to top — E — Ease of Use related: 8 standards: 0 #operable, #usable Effectiveness related: 3 standards: 2 #usable, #suitable Efficacy alias of Effectiveness Efficiency related: 2 standards: 3 #efficient Elasticity related: 3 standards: 0 #flexible Energy Efficiency related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient Energy Proportionality related: 6 standards: 0 #efficient Environmental Sustainability alias of Sustainability Eventual Consistency alias of Consistency Evolvability related: 7 standards: 0 #flexible, #maintainable Exactness alias of Accuracy Expected physical environment related: 1 standards: 0 #suitable, #operable Explainability related: 5 standards: 5 #safe, #suitable Extensibility related: 4 standards: 3 #flexible, #maintainable Return to top — F — Fail safe related: 2 standards: 1 #safe, #reliable Failure Transparency related: 4 standards: 0 #reliable, #safe Fairness related: 4 standards: 5 #reliable, #safe, #suitable Fault isolation related: 6 standards: 2 #safe, #reliable Fault tolerance related: 8 standards: 3 #reliable, #usable Faultlessness related: 3 standards: 1 #reliable, #usable, #secure Features related: 4 standards: 0 #usable Flexibility related: 7 standards: 10 #flexible Functional Adaptability related: 3 standards: 1 #suitable Functional Appropriateness related: 4 standards: 1 #usable, #reliable, #suitable Functional Correctness alias of Correctness Functional completeness related: 4 standards: 5 #usable, #reliable, #suitable Functional suitability related: 4 standards: 1 #usable, #reliable, #suitable Functionality related: 4 standards: 0 #usable, #reliable, #suitable Return to top — G — Governability related: 7 standards: 5 #operable, #secure Graceful degradation related: 7 standards: 0 #reliable, #usable Groundedness related: 7 standards: 2 #reliable, #suitable Return to top — H — Hazard warning related: 2 standards: 1 #safe, #reliable High Availability alias of Availability Human Controllability alias of Controllability Human Oversight alias of Controllability Return to top — I — Immunity related: 3 standards: 0 #secure, #reliable Inclusivity related: 5 standards: 3 #usable Independence related: 8 standards: 0 #flexible Information Security alias of Security Injection Resistance related: 5 standards: 2 #secure Inspectability alias of Analysability Installability related: 4 standards: 1 #operable, #flexible Integrability related: 5 standards: 0 #flexible, #operable Integrity related: 2 standards: 16 #secure Interaction capability related: 8 standards: 3 #usable, #operable Interchangeability related: 8 standards: 0 #flexible, #operable Internationalization related: 5 standards: 0 #flexible, #usable Interoperability related: 2 standards: 12 #usable, #operable Intervenability related: 4 standards: 1 #safe Intrusion Detection related: 1 standards: 1 #secure Intrusion Prevention related: 1 standards: 1 #secure Intuitiveness related: 7 standards: 0 #usable Return to top — J — Jitter related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient, #reliable Return to top — L — Latency related: 2 standards: 1 #efficient, #usable, #operable Lead time for changes related: 4 standards: 0 #operable Learnability related: 5 standards: 2 #usable, #operable Legacy Support alias of Backward compatibility Legal Requirements related: 7 standards: 0 #usable, #operable Legibility related: 2 standards: 0 #usable Localizability related: 5 standards: 0 #flexible, #usable Longevity related: 3 standards: 0 #reliable, #flexible, #maintainable Loose Coupling related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient, #suitable, #maintainable Return to top — M — Maintainability related: 5 standards: 20 #maintainable Mean time between failures related: 6 standards: 0 #operable Mean time to recovery related: 6 standards: 0 #operable, #suitable Memory usage related: 4 standards: 0 #efficient Model Transparency related: 5 standards: 5 #reliable, #suitable Modifiability related: 5 standards: 2 #maintainable, #flexible Modularity related: 7 standards: 6 #maintainable Mutability alias of Changeability Return to top — N — Non-repudiation related: 4 standards: 5 #secure Return to top — O — Observability related: 3 standards: 4 #operable Operability related: 4 standards: 4 #usable, #operable Operational and Environment Requirements related: 2 standards: 0 #operable Operational constraint related: 4 standards: 1 #safe, #reliable Return to top — P — Patient Safety related: 6 standards: 0 #safe, #reliable, #secure Performance related: 5 standards: 5 #efficient Performance Efficiency alias of Performance Personalization related: 1 standards: 0 #flexible Policy Enforcement alias of Governability Portability related: 7 standards: 7 #flexible, #operable Preciseness alias of Precision Precision related: 3 standards: 1 #reliable, #usable Predictability related: 2 standards: 1 #reliable Privacy related: 2 standards: 9 #secure Profitability related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient Provability related: 3 standards: 0 #reliable, #safe Return to top — R — Readability related: 4 standards: 0 #usable Recoverability related: 7 standards: 5 #reliable, #usable Recovery Time alias of Recoverability Redundancy related: 6 standards: 0 #reliable, #operable Releasability related: 3 standards: 0 #operable, #efficient Reliability related: 6 standards: 24 #reliable Repeatability alias of Reproducibility Replaceability related: 10 standards: 1 #operable, #flexible Reproducibility related: 3 standards: 2 #usable Resilience related: 2 standards: 5 #reliable, #secure Resistance related: 6 standards: 2 #secure Resource efficiency related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient Resource utilization related: 6 standards: 2 #efficient Response Time related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient Responsiveness related: 3 standards: 0 #usable, #efficient Reusability related: 6 standards: 1 #flexible, #maintainable Risk identification related: 2 standards: 2 #safe, #reliable Robustness related: 3 standards: 10 #reliable Return to top — S — Safe integration related: 2 standards: 1 #safe, #reliable Safety related: 3 standards: 11 #safe, #reliable, #secure Scalability related: 3 standards: 7 #flexible Securability related: 1 standards: 1 #secure Security related: 8 standards: 28 #secure, #reliable Self-Configuring alias of Autonomy Self-Healing alias of Autonomy Self-Optimizing alias of Autonomy Self-Protecting alias of Autonomy Self-containedness related: 8 standards: 0 #flexible Self-descriptiveness related: 5 standards: 2 #usable Shutdown Time related: 2 standards: 0 #efficient Simplicity related: 2 standards: 0 #efficient, #usable Speed related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient Speed to Market alias of Time to Market Stability related: 3 standards: 0 #reliable Standard Compliance alias of Compliance Startup Time related: 3 standards: 0 #efficient Suitability related: 3 standards: 1 #suitable Supportability alias of Maintainability Sustainability related: 2 standards: 3 #efficient, #reliable Return to top — T — Tailorability alias of Configurability Test Coverage related: 5 standards: 0 #suitable, #maintainable Testability related: 5 standards: 9 #suitable, #maintainable Themability related: 6 standards: 0 #flexible, #maintainable Throughput related: 3 standards: 1 #efficient Time behaviour related: 5 standards: 2 #efficient Time to Market related: 6 standards: 1 #efficient Timeliness related: 5 standards: 1 #reliable, #suitable Traceability related: 5 standards: 18 #reliable, #operable Transactionality related: 6 standards: 0 #reliable Transparency related: 5 standards: 15 #reliable Truthfulness alias of Correctness Return to top — U — Understandability related: 6 standards: 7 #usable, #operable Unit Testability alias of Testability Updateability related: 8 standards: 4 #operable, #maintainable Upgradeability related: 5 standards: 1 #operable, #maintainable Uptime alias of Availability Usability related: 7 standards: 7 #usable, #operable User Controllability alias of Controllability User assistance related: 3 standards: 1 #usable User engagement related: 3 standards: 1 #usable User error protection related: 3 standards: 3 #usable, #operable User experience related: 4 standards: 1 #usable User interface aesthetics related: 7 standards: 0 #usable Return to top — V — Value for Money alias of Affordability Verifiability related: 3 standards: 4 #reliable, #maintainable Versatility related: 2 standards: 0 #flexible, #suitable Vulnerability related: 4 standards: 1 #secure, #reliable Return to top — I — i18n alias of Internationalization Return to top
