Towards a Modern Quality Framework

Quality frameworks have been used in requirements engineering (RE) for a long time to help elicit and document quality requirements. However, existing quality frameworks have major issues that hamper their applicability, particularly in RE, but also in other fields such as the design of digital systems. In this paper, we discuss the issues of existing quality frameworks and propose a new quality model, which has been designed for application as a quality framework in RE as well as in the design of digital systems. We present the rationale and requirements for our new model, introduce the model and sketch its application. Our work contributes to the improvement of quality frameworks used in RE and Digital Design.