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Making Practical Use of Quality Attribute Information
March/April 2008 (vol. 25 no. 2)
pp. 25-33
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"Making Practical Use of Quality Attribute Information," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 25-33, March/April, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2008.39,
author = {},
title = {Making Practical Use of Quality Attribute Information},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {25},
number = {2},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2008},
pages = {25-33},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2008.39},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Software
TI - Making Practical Use of Quality Attribute Information
IS - 2
SN - 0740-7459
SP25
EP33
EPD - 25-33
PY - 2008
KW - Design methodology
KW - Software systems
KW - Taxonomy
KW - Software engineering
KW - Software design
KW - ISO standards
KW - Automatic control
KW - Control systems
KW - Information analysis
KW - Terminology
KW - architecture-centric design methods
KW - quality attribute requirements
KW - software system design
KW - quality attribute scenarios
KW - utility tree
KW - attribute driven design
KW - object oriented analysis and design
VL - 25
JA - IEEE Software
ER -
 
Quality attribute requirements are important both for customer and end-user satisfaction and for driving software system design. Yet asserting their importance raises many other questions. In particular, using quality attribute information in practice isn't obvious. Here, we consider two aspects of using such information: communicating with stakeholders about quality attributes and incorporating quality attribute requirements into existing analysis and design methods.

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Index Terms:
Design methodology,Software systems,Taxonomy,Software engineering,Software design,ISO standards,Automatic control,Control systems,Information analysis,Terminology,architecture-centric design methods,quality attribute requirements,software system design,quality attribute scenarios,utility tree,attribute driven design,object oriented analysis and design
Citation:
"Making Practical Use of Quality Attribute Information," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 25-33, March-April 2008, doi:10.1109/MS.2008.39
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