A Lightweight Sanity Check for Implemented Architectures

Software architecture has been loosely defined as the organizational structure of a software system, including the components, connectors, constraints, and rationale.1 Evaluating a system\´s software architecture helps stakeholders to check whether the architecture complies with their interests. Additionally, the evaluation can result in a common understanding of the architecture\´s strengths and weaknesses. All of this helps to determine which quality criteria the system meets because "architectures allow or preclude nearly all of the system\´s quality attributes."2