Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
The emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as an approach for integrating applications that expose services presents many new challenges to organizations resulting in significant risks to their business. Particularly important among those risks are failures to effectively address quality attribute requirements such as performance, availability, security, and modifiability. Because the risk and impact of SOA is distributed and pervasive across applications, it is critical to perform an architecture evaluation early in the software life cycle. This report contains technical information about SOA design considerations and tradeoffs that can help the architecture evaluator to identify and mitigate risks in a timely and effective manner. The report provides an overview of SOA, outlines key architecture approaches and their effect on quality attributes, establishes an organized collection of design-related questions that an architecture evaluator may use to analyze the ability of the architecture to meet quality requirements, and provides a brief sample evaluation.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
Service-Oriented ArchitectureSoftware Architecture
System of Systems
Technical Report
CMU/SEI-2007-TR-015
September 2007
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SEI:
Bianco, Philip; Kotermanski, Rick; & Merson, Paulo. Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-015). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr015.cfm
IEEE:
P. Bianco, R. Kotermanski, and P. Merson, "Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-015, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr015.cfm
APA:
Bianco, P., Kotermanski, R., & Merson, P. (2007). Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-015). Retrieved May 24, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr015.cfm
CHI:
Bianco, Philip, Rick Kotermanski, and Paulo Merson. Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-015). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr015.cfm
MLA:
Bianco, P., Kotermanski, R., & Merson, P. 2007. Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-015). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr015.cfm
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