Assignment 1

Topic: Documenting Quality Attributes

Overview

Your team is assigned to develop a software application that would be used in an organization to support its activities and business transactions. Discuss the processes involved and identify important functionalities to be supported by the software application.

Based on the requirements, your team is required to develop the architecture this system. In order to create the architecture, you have to first document the main requirements of the system and identify all relevant factors that may influence the software architecture.

Tasks

You should at least complete the following tasks:

1. Identify the main requirements

 Describe the system overview, which should at least include the following:

i. Description of the main users (4 – 6 actors)

ii. Description of the main processes (6 – 10 use cases)

iii. Description of the technological architecture (e.g. clientserver, mobile, Web, etc.)

 Draw the main use case diagram.

 Identify the major subsystems or modules of the software.

 Draw the component diagram (for the main modules/subsystems).

 Draw the deployment diagram (for the expected hardware and connectivity setup).

2. Identify the main quality attributes

 Describe the quality attributes (at least 3).

 Write at least 3 quality attribute scenarios for each quality attribute. The scenarios should explain importance of the quality attributes.

 Draw the quality attribute scenario diagrams.