C.2.8:5.4 - A whole-framework architectural rationale

A framework maintainer has several individual pattern-quality results and needs to decide what they establish about the framework as a whole. E.4.FPF:3–4 explains the different questions: E.21 evaluates a pattern; E.2.DA evaluates whole-FPF Pillar adequacy. The selected structure is this relation between the two scopes and the corresponding return.

For a reader who can already use those evaluation questions, the existing rationale and direct links may be sufficient. A less prepared reader may need the questions explained before the links are useful. An ESI comparison checks recovery of that scope distinction and next return under stated preparation and access. Counting the account’s headings would not answer it.