Measuring Design Quality In Software Architecture
Software architecture's goal is to minimize human resources required to build & maintain systems. Design quality is measured by effort needed to meet customer needs. Low effort = good design, growing effort = bad design.
The goal of software architecture is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system. The measure of design quality is simply the measure of the effort required to meet the needs of the customer. If that effort is low, and stays low throughout the lifetime of the system, the design is good. If that effort grows with each new release, the design is bad. It’s as simple as that.