Section 4. Multi-objective Decision-Making and AHP
Software development includes numerous situations involving multiple factors, criteria/objective, and metrics. Depending on size, complexity, and level of analysis, there could be dozens of quality characteristics. Our definition of trustworthy software contains five major customer requirements: reliability, safety, security, maintainability, and customer responsiveness. Each of these comprises several quality characteristics at various levels of analysis. Add to this the cost and schedule requirements, and we have a high degree of problem intricacy from decision and design perspectives. Figure 1 illustrates this point: Just two customer-demanded quality characteristics, maintainability and usability, ...
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