Comments on: Alt.Net Seattle – Takeaway().Resources

By: Natali Alinskaya

Natali Alinskaya — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:01:00 +0000

Hello friends,this is a nice site and I wanted to post a note to let you know, good job! Thanks Best regards, Natali, CEO of iscsi boot initiator

By: Frank Baier

Frank Baier — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:32:00 +0000

Very good list of articles! I will read them later. Thanks, Xanax

By: Jarod Ferguson

Jarod Ferguson — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:54:17 +0000

Thanks Evan, I updated the post to include the book. (all I had to go off of in my notes was ‘SEI – Quality Attributes’)

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:33:31 +0000

The best resource for getting your feet wet with software quality attributes is to read the book Software Architecture in Practice. The PDFs on the SEI website are great, but I don’t think you’ll get the broad picture from reading them alone.

For example, when working with stakeholders on a new system, it’s often useful to define a Utility tree to help guide architecture decisions. If the project is very large, a Quality Attribute Workshop might actually help the project drive out some risk. Another tool where quality attributes are used is in doing Architecture Evalutions. This entails an evaluation activity that’s designed to drive nonfunctional risks out of large development projects.

These things are all related to quality attributes, but if you go for the PDFs alone, you’ll miss them (even at an introductory level).