April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 53m
English
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Chapter 5. Achieving Qualities
with Felix Bachmann, Mark Klein, and Bill Wood
Note: Felix Bachmann, Mark Klein, and Bill Wood are senior members of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute.
Every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chapter 4 characterized a number of system quality attributes. That characterization was in terms of a collection of scenarios. Understanding what is meant by a quality attribute enables you to elicit the quality requirements but provides no help in understanding how to achieve them. In this chapter, we begin to provide that help. For each of the six system quality attributes that we elaborated in Chapter 4, we provide architectural guidance for their achievement. The tactics ...