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| Criterion |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Domain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |
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