Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition

Mario R. Barbacci
Robert Ellison
Anthony J. Lattanze
Judith A. Stafford
Charles B. Weinstock
William G. Wood

Technical Report
CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016

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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.