The Quality Triage Method: Quickly Identifying User Stories with Quality Risks

Abstract

Quality requirements often receive insufficient attention, both in agile and in traditional software development. This paper describes the quality triage, a quick, agile method in which user stories or features with quality risks are identified. This paper shows how the four qualities scalability, security, safety, and availability are scored at short expert meetings ― triages. In this way, quality risks are made explicit and can be immediately addressed. We illustrate the method with a scenario involving semi-autonomous cars.