NFR-Assistant: tool support for achieving quality

Author

Tran, Quan ; Chung, Lawrence

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Richardson, TX, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

284

Lastpage

289

Abstract

This paper presents the NFR-Assistant, a prototype CASE tool, which assists the software developer in systematically achieving quality requirements. The tool allows for explicit representation of non-functional requirements, consideration of design alternatives, analysis of design trade-offs, rationalization of a design choice and evaluation of the level of achievement of NFRs. As one of the first tools, the particular prototype presented in this paper is a Java applet rendition of a subset of the NFR-Assistant. The paper illustrates the use of the prototype for the development of an architectural design for no other than a distributed version of the NFR-Assistant itself

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; distributed processing; software quality; CASE tool; Java applet rendition; NFR-Assistant; computer aided software engineering; distributed processing; nonfunctional requirements; rationalization; software development; software quality; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Graphical user interfaces; Prototypes; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Software quality; Software systems; Software tools; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, 1999. ASSET '99. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Richardson, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0122-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSET.1999.756782

Filename

756782