EVOLVABILITY IN SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS

Anca Daniela Ionita, Marin Litoiu

2010

Abstract

The paper investigates the evolution and maintenance of service oriented systems deployed in SOA and cloud infrastructures. It analyzes the challenges entailed by the frequent modifications of business environments, discussing their causes, grasping the evolution points in service architectures, studying classifications of human actors involved across the whole life cycle, as well as pointing out possible risks and difficulties encountered in the process of change. Based on the lessons learned in our study, four pillars for improving service evolvability are identified: orientation towards the users, increasing the level of abstraction, supporting automation and enabling adaptivity through feedback loops.

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Ionita A. and Litoiu M. (2010). EVOLVABILITY IN SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 245-250. DOI: 10.5220/0003040102450250


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@conference{icsoft10,
author={Anca Daniela Ionita and Marin Litoiu},
title={EVOLVABILITY IN SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={245-250},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003040102450250},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - EVOLVABILITY IN SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Ionita A.
AU - Litoiu M.
PY - 2010
SP - 245
EP - 250
DO - 10.5220/0003040102450250