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Selected:Fault Isolation Goal Question Metric Software Architecture Canvas ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Engineering Fault Isolation	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected.	Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.	The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	30-180 min	90-180 min	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	1-6	3-6	3-10	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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