10.1. Quality Requirements

Content

The table or tree (as defined in ATAM – Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) of quality requirements, with quality/evaluation scenarios as leaves.

Motivation

The table or tree structure with priorities provides an overview for a sometimes large number of quality requirements.

Form

The quality tree is a high-level overview of the quality goals and requirements:

• a table, containing specific quality requirements
• tree-like refinement of the term “quality”. Use “quality” or “usefulness” as a root
• a mind map with quality categories as main branches

In any case the tree should include links to the scenarios of the following section.

describe quality tree here