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Compatibility, Consistency, Interoperability

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The design of systems and components during the design stage of the systems life cycle requires specific purposeful actions to ensure effective designs and viable systems. Designers are faced with a number of design concerns that they must embed into the design in every instance of thinking and documentation. Three of these concerns are addressed by the non-functional requirements for compatibility, consistency, and interoperability. Formal understanding of each of these non-functional requirements requires definitions, terms, and equations, as well as the ability to understand how to control their effect and measure their outcomes during system design endeavors.

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Adams, K.M. (2015). Compatibility, Consistency, Interoperability. In: Nonfunctional Requirements in Systems Analysis and Design. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18344-2_7

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