Choosing an architecture or a framework for a system can be tricky at times especially for beginners. The wrong choice can not only affect the projects success rate negatively but can also be a bad business decision. When developing a new framework or architecture the developer should know what properties that framework or architecture should support. This study have therefore chosen to present different architectures and frameworks and analyze their properties.’By using semi-structured interviews and internet surveys to ask developers about these properties we have presented why and which properties are most important and what developers are looking for in an architecture or a framework. Thereby the purpose of this study is to either offer the reader help with choosing the right architecture or acknowledge the properties when developing a new one. Similar studies seem to focus on undefined adjectives whereas this study will explain and discuss these properties in detail. The result of the study is too weak to be able to represent all developers but could indicate that ease of use, documentation, a community and a unidirectional data flow are properties that are preferred. The respondents are however torn and seem to have different opinions on whether or not properties such as pre-generated code, modularity and testability should be preferred over other properties. The goal is to hopefully inspire other studies to examine these properties further or to help developers understand frameworks and architectures and their properties better, thereby making it easier for them to choose one or to develop one.