Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition

The Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) is a facilitated method that engages system stakeholders early in the life cycle to discover the driving quality attributes of a software-intensive system. The QAW was developed to complement the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) and provides a way to identify important quality attributes and clarify system requirements before the software architecture has been created.

This is the third edition of a technical report describing the QAW. We have narrowed the scope of a QAW to the creation of prioritized and refined scenarios. This report describes the newly revised QAW and describes potential uses of the refined scenarios generated during it.

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Authors

Mario R. Barbacci

Robert J. Ellison

Anthony J. Lattanze

Judith A. Stafford

Charles B. Weinstock

William G. Wood

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Software Architecture

Technical Report
CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016
October 2003

Cite This Report

SEI:

Barbacci, Mario; Ellison, Robert; Lattanze, Anthony; Stafford, Judith; Weinstock, Charles; & Wood, William. Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr016.cfm

IEEE:

M. Barbacci, R. Ellison, A. Lattanze, J. Stafford, C. Weinstock, and W. Wood, "Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr016.cfm

APA:

Barbacci, M., Ellison, R., Lattanze, A., Stafford, J., Weinstock, C., & Wood, W. (2003). Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016). Retrieved May 20, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr016.cfm

CHI:

Barbacci, Mario, Robert Ellison, Anthony Lattanze, Judith Stafford, Charles Weinstock, and William Wood. Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr016.cfm

MLA:

Barbacci, M., Ellison, R., Lattanze, A., Stafford, J., Weinstock, C., & Wood, W. 2003. Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr016.cfm

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