Accession Number:
ADA455616
Title:
Quality Attribute Workshop Participants Handbook
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Corporate Author:
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR BIOELECTRICITY SHREVEPORT LA
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Report Date:
2000-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
56.0
Abstract:
In large software systems, the achievement of qualities such as performance, security, and modifiability is dependent not only on code-level practices but also on the overall software architecture. Thus, it is in developers best interests to determine, at the time a systems software architecture is specified, whether the system will have the desired qualities. With the sponsorship of the U.S. Coast Guards Deepwater Acquisition Project, the Software Engineering Institute SEI has developed the concept of a Quality Attribute Workshop in which system stakeholders focus on the analysis and evaluation of system requirements and quality attributes. The purpose of the workshop is to identify scenarios from the point of view of a diverse group of stakeholders and to identify risks e.g., inadequate performance, successful denial-of-service attacks and possible mitigation strategies e.g., replication, prototyping, simulation. Stakeholders include architects, developers, users, maintainers, and people involved in installation, deployment, logistics, planning, and acquisition. This special report describes the process SEI used to conduct a workshop and the information required, suggested tools, and expected outcomes of the workshop.
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Subject Categories:
- Computer Programming and Software