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Selected:SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)Smoke Test Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas Test Card

Criterion	Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)	Product Discovery Smoke Test	Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas	Product Discovery Test Card
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.	When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.	When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog.	The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.
Complexitydifferent	High	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope	1-5 Tage	60-90 min	20-35 min
Participantsdifferent	Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting	Nutzertraffic	3-8	1-5
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop	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	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note	Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog	Test Card with a pre-set threshold
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth	ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis	ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis

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