QRASA 2016 - Qualitative Reasoning about Software Architectures (QRASA)

Although methods and techniques have been developed for quantitatively assessing quality properties such as performance, reliability, and availability; there are some properties that elude quantitative assessment, such as maintainability or interoperability. In these cases it may be hard to understand whether a given metric is valid, or how it should be interpreted. This is why qualitative approaches can represent a complementary approach for (automatically) making sense of this quantitative data. In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers that are interested in discussing, investigating and creating qualitative approaches for assessing, and in general reasoning about, these architectural properties.