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| Criterion |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | 1-5 Tage | 20-35 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | 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 | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |