Ilities

As used in the field of software engineering, ilities are non-functional engineering requirements, so-named because most of them end in 'ility'. A (possibly incomplete) list of ilities follows:

• accessibility,
• accountability,
• accuracy,
• adaptability ,
• administrability ,
• affordability ,
• agility,
• availability,
• composability ,
• configurability ,
• degradability ,
• demonstrability ,
• dependability,
• deployability ,
• distributability ,
• durability ,
• evolvability,
• extensibility,
• fault tolerance ,
• flexibility ,
• footprint,
• interoperability,
• maintainability,
• manageability ,
• mobility,
• nomadicity ,
• openness,
• performance,
• portability,
• predictability,
• preliability ,
• reliability,
• responsiveness ,
• reusability,
• safety,
• scalability,
• schedulability ,
• seamlessness ,
• security,
• simplicity,
• stability,
• supportability,
• survivability,
• tailorability ,
• timeliness ,
• trust,
• understandability ,
• usability

External link

• An extensive discussion of illities