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The acceptance of a software system by its users crucially depends on the system’s ability to meet its quality requirements. In this context, the relevant quality factors as well as their importance differ between domains, between organizations, and even between development projects within an organization. The UML QoS-Profile proposes a flexible framework for modelling quality requirements with the UML. However, the QoS-Profile does not offer guidelines on how to derive relevant quality factors that can be used for modelling quality requirements with the UML. Even though reference modelling techniques (e.g. domain engineering) provide an appropriate solution if sufficient resources are available – they lack in scalability if this is not the case. In this position paper we sketch a scalable approach for defining QoS reference models that is based on well-established requirements engineering techniques.
This work was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant 01-IS-E09-B (ranTEST) and grant 01-IS-F06-D (REMsES).
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Rinke, T., Weyer, T. (2007). Defining Reference Models for Modelling Qualities: How Requirements Engineering Techniques Can Help. In: Sawyer, P., Paech, B., Heymans, P. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4542. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73031-6_25
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