The System Quality Requirements Description (NSV-7) identifies the quality requirements considered crucial to the successful achievement of the mission goals assigned to systems. Very often these requirements are the deciding factors in acquisition and deployment decisions, and figure strongly in systems analyses and simulations done to support the acquisition decision processes and system design refinement.

NSV-7 therefore specifies the quality requirements of systems, system hardware and software items, their interfaces (system data carried by the interface and the communications link details that implement the interface), and their functions. It specifies the current quality requirements and those expected or required at specified times in the future. The quality requirement categories are selected by the architect and end user community. As the complete set of quality requirements may not be known at the early stages of architecture definition, it is to be expected that this subview will be updated throughout the system's specification, design, development, testing, and maybe even its deployment and operations life-cycle phases.

NSV-7 builds on other NSV subviews by specifying quality requirements for:

If the future quality expectations are based on expected technology improvements, then the quality requirements and their time periods will be coordinated by using a Systems Technology Forecast (NSV-9).

If quality improvements are associated with an overall system evolution or migration plan, then the time periods in NSV-7 are coordinated with the milestones in the Systems Configuration Management subview (NSV-8).

Please note that the requirements created in the SV-7 subview are automatically considered as "quality requirements", the Requirement nature property being set to "Quality".

The SV-7 report template is supplied with one parameter: the architecture to be analyzed. There are no additional parameters.

This chapter lists the quality requirements of the architecture with their name and comment. A paragraph dedicated to each requirement is displayed with the sub-requirements of the requirement. It also displays the objects constrained by the requirement.