July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
15h 25m
English
Maya Daneva1; Andrea Herrmann2; Luigi Buglione3 1 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands2 Herrmann & Ehrlich, Stuttgart, Germany3 ETS Montréal/Engineering.IT SpA, Rome, Italy
This chapter discusses how software architects from 21 European project organizations cope with quality requirements (QRs) in large, contract-based systems delivery projects. It reports on the roles that architects played in QRs engineering, their interactions with other project roles, the specific actions architects took to help discover, document, quantify, validate, and negotiate QRs, and the role ...