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References: Quality Attribute Scenarios

Curated sources for deeper study of quality attribute scenario construction, the six-component stimulus-response model, typed scenario families, brainstorming techniques, and scenario catalogs.

Books

  • Bass, Len, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman. (2021). Software Architecture in Practice (4th ed.). Addison-Wesley. Provides the definitive SEI treatment of quality attribute scenarios, including the six-component model, general versus concrete scenarios, and the typed scenario templates for all eight canonical quality attributes.

  • Clements, Paul, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein. (2001). Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies. Addison-Wesley. Illustrates scenario construction and scenario catalog development through real ATAM case studies, showing how scenario workshops produce the analytical raw material for architectural approach analysis.

  • Barbacci, Mario, et al. (1995). Quality Attributes. CMU/SEI-95-TR-021. Software Engineering Institute. Establishes the stimulus-response model for quality attribute specification that this chapter develops into the six-component scenario form — the foundational theoretical source for the scenario structure.

Articles and Papers

  • Barbacci, Mario, et al. (2003). "Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs)." CMU/SEI-2003-TR-016. Software Engineering Institute. The primary SEI reference for the facilitation techniques — structured brainstorming, perspective rotation, silent generation, dot voting — described in this chapter's scenario brainstorming section.

  • Kazman, Rick, et al. (2000). "ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation." CMU/SEI-2000-TR-004. Software Engineering Institute. The canonical ATAM technical report, covering how scenarios are collected, prioritized, and used as the primary analytical input for architectural approach analysis in both Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Online Resources

  • Quality Attribute Workshop Facilitator's Guide — Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. The SEI's facilitation guide for QAW workshops, providing step-by-step guidance for the scenario brainstorming and prioritization techniques described in this chapter.

  • Scenario-Based Architecture Evaluation — Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. SEI resources on using scenarios as the unit of analysis in architecture evaluation, supporting this chapter's treatment of scenarios as the bridge between abstract quality requirements and concrete architectural analysis.

  • k6 Load Testing Documentation — Grafana Labs. Documentation for the open-source load testing tool used to implement performance scenario fitness functions — directly relevant to this chapter's treatment of the scenario-to-fitness-function pipeline.

  • Chaos Engineering Principles — Principles of Chaos. The foundational principles document for chaos engineering — the discipline for implementing and verifying availability scenarios as continuous fitness functions, completing the scenario catalog to CI/CD pipeline described at the end of this chapter.

  • OWASP Testing Guide — OWASP Foundation. The industry-standard guide for security testing scenarios, providing detailed templates for the security scenario family described in this chapter, including credential-stuffing and injection attack scenarios.

Videos

  • "Breaking Your API Badly: Failure Scenarios in Practice." GOTO Conference. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com. Conference talk demonstrating how concrete failure scenarios (availability and performance) are constructed from production incident post-mortems — an applied illustration of the "2am call" scenario generation technique described in this chapter.