Paper Info
Title
Quality models for web services: A systematic mapping
Abstract
Context: Quality of Service (QoS) is a major issue in various web service related activities. Quality models have been proposed as the engineering artefact to provide a common framework of understanding for QoS, by defining the quality factors that apply to web service usage. Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the current state of the art of the proposed quality models for web services, specifically: (1) which are these proposals and how are they related; (2) what are their structural characteristics; (3) what quality factors are the most and least addressed; and (4) what are their most consolidated definitions. Method: We have conducted a systematic mapping by defining a robust protocol that combines automatic and manual searches from different sources. We used a rigorous method to elicitate the keywords from the research questions and a selection criteria to retrieve the final papers to evaluate. We have adopted the ISO/IEC 25010 standard to articulate our analysis. Results: We have evaluated 47 different quality models from 65 papers that fulfilled the selection criteria. By analyzing in depth these quality models, we have: (1) distributed the proposals along the time dimension and identified their relationships; (2) analyzed their size (visualizing the number of nodes and levels) and definition coverage (as indicator of quality of the proposals); (3) quantified the coverage of the different ISO/IEC 25010 quality factors by the proposals; (4) identified the quality factors that appeared in at least 30% of the surveyed proposals and provided the most consolidated definitions for them. Conclusions: We believe that this panoramic view on the anatomy of the quality models for web services may be a good reference for prospective researchers and practitioners in the field and especially may help avoiding the definition of new proposals that do not align with current research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.infsof.2014.03.012
Information and Software Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
quality model,quality of service,systematic mapping,web service
Data mining,Quality policy,Systems engineering,Computer science,Systematic mapping,Quality of service,Web service,Multiple time dimensions
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
56
10
0950-5849
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.16
46
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Oriol113212.52
Jordi Marco216718.90
Xavier Franch31627194.38