%0 Report %1 barbacci95 %A Barbacci, Mario %A Klein, Mark H. %A Longstaff, Thomas A. %A Weinstock, Charles B. %D 1995 %K quality requirements software %N CMU/SEI-95-TR-021 %T Quality Attributes %U http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/95.reports/pdf/tr021.95.pdf %X Computer systems are used in many critical applications where a failure can have serious consequences (loss of lives or property). Developing systematic ways to relate the software quality attributes of a system to the system's architecture provides a sound basis for making objective decisions about design trade-offs and enables engineers to make reasonably accurate predictions about a system's attributes that are free from bias and hidden assumptions. The ultimate goal is the ability to quantitatively evaluate and trade off multiple software quality attributes to arrive at a better overall system. The purpose of this report is to take a small step in the direction of developing a unifying approach for reasoning about multiple software quality attributes. In this report, we define software quality, introduce a generic taxonomy of attributes, discuss the connections between the attributes, and discuss future work leading to an attribute-based methodology for evaluating software architectures.

@techreport{barbacci95, abstract = {Computer systems are used in many critical applications where a failure can have serious consequences (loss of lives or property). Developing systematic ways to relate the software quality attributes of a system to the system's architecture provides a sound basis for making objective decisions about design trade-offs and enables engineers to make reasonably accurate predictions about a system's attributes that are free from bias and hidden assumptions. The ultimate goal is the ability to quantitatively evaluate and trade off multiple software quality attributes to arrive at a better overall system. The purpose of this report is to take a small step in the direction of developing a unifying approach for reasoning about multiple software quality attributes. In this report, we define software quality, introduce a generic taxonomy of attributes, discuss the connections between the attributes, and discuss future work leading to an attribute-based methodology for evaluating software architectures. }, added-at = {2007-12-13T21:56:19.000+0100}, author = {Barbacci, Mario and Klein, Mark H. and Longstaff, Thomas A. and Weinstock, Charles B.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2328b5913c46335a026317ae5daff45cb/neilernst}, institution = {Software Engineering Institute}, interhash = {0a550d298b6bd65351377e64a0b353d8}, intrahash = {328b5913c46335a026317ae5daff45cb}, keywords = {quality requirements software}, number = {CMU/SEI-95-TR-021}, timestamp = {2007-12-13T21:56:19.000+0100}, title = {Quality Attributes}, type = {Technical report}, url = {http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/95.reports/pdf/tr021.95.pdf}, year = 1995 }