ABSTRACT Understanding quality attributes relationships impersonates a vital role in sustaining a sufficient level of quality to a software system. Furthermore, calibrating the relationships between system’s quality attributes will not only affect its quality but also may reduce the development cost. However, this paper introduces a framework to explore the nature of the relationships between different quality attributes at a low level with the aid of architectural strategies (i.e. tactics). Additionally, this framework enables the software architects to calibrate and adjust the quality attributes relationships using two pieces of information, that is, tactics and scenarios. Furthermore, the developed framework enables software architects to have a rough measurement of the strength of the relationships between the quality attributes.
