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Achieving a balance between the quality characteristics that need to be addressed during the development of a software product may determine the success of a software project. However, few software organizations deal with interactions between the quality characteristics that could be present in a software project. In order to support organizations, we have developed a process framework, SQIMF, which can be used to manage this type of interactions. In this work we describe one of the SQIMF processes - that which is employed to monitor product quality requirements - in order to support software organizations as regards identifying interactions between quality requirements, in addition to characterizing them and identifying relevant contextual factors. An exploratory case study was conducted in order to initiate the validation of the proposed process, as the result of which we found interactions between usability and security during the inception phase of a software project.
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This work has been funded by the VILMA and INGENIOSO projects (Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Cultura - Junta de Comunidades de Castilla La Mancha) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional FEDER, Ref.: PEII11-0316-2878 and Ref. PEII11-0025-9533) and GEODAS-BC project (TIN2012-37493-C03-01 funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and by FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional).
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García-Mireles, G.A., Moraga, M.Á., García, F., Piattini, M. (2016). A Process Support with Which to Identify Interactions Between Quality Characteristics. In: Maciaszek, L.A., Filipe, J. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 599. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30243-0_2
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