Using Traceability to Support SOA Impact Analysis

Author

Hirzalla, M.A. ; Zisman, A. ; Cleland-Huang, J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., DePaul Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

4-9 July 2011

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

152

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been recognized as an important paradigm for software engineering. Several organizations are in the process of adopting and evolving SOA deployments. In this paper we present IntelliTrace, an intelligent traceability framework to support impact analysis across different modeling layers of a SOA based system. The framework uses traceability links among different SOA artifacts to analyze the impact that changes in SOA-based systems can have in key performance indicators. The change impact analysis is triggered by different situations such as changes at the service level, business process level, goal level, key performance indicators, and SOA infrastructure. A prototype tool has been implemented in order to illustrate and evaluate the framework. An extensive case study built around an online airline reservation system is used to evaluate the framework.

Keywords

program diagnostics; reservation computer systems; service-oriented architecture; travel industry; IntelliTrace; SOA impact analysis support; business process level; intelligent traceability framework; key performance indicators; modeling layers; online airline reservation system; prototype tool; service oriented architecture; software engineering; Intelligent traceability; impact analysis; key performance indicator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services (SERVICES), 2011 IEEE World Congress on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0879-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4461-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES.2011.103

Filename

6012706