Architectural-Toolbox-Description.md

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 Besides affecting complexity, their presence also has an impact on compiling (causing the recompilation of big parts of the system), testing (forcing to execute unrelated parts of the system, increasing testing complexity), or deploying (forcing developers to re-deploy unchanged components).
 
 # Architectural smell characteristics
+An architectural smell characteristic is a property or attribute of an architectural smell instance. 
+An architectural smell instance is a concrete occurrence of a type of architectural smell.
+For each architectural smell type, one can measure different characteristics. We refer to the characteristics that can be measured for every type of smell as *smell-generic*, whereas we refer to the characteristics that can only be measured for certain types of smells as *smell-specific* characteristics.
+The characteristics considered in our work are reported in Table
+
 
 # Tooling
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