Paper Info
Title
Portability of executable service-oriented processes: metrics and validation.
Abstract
A key promise of process languages based on open standards, such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language, is the avoidance of vendor lock-in through the portability of processes among runtime environments. Despite the fact that today various runtimes claim to support this language, every runtime implements a different subset, thus hampering portability and locking in their users. It is our intention to improve this situation by enabling the measurement of the portability of executable service-oriented processes. This helps developers to assess their implementations and to decide if it is feasible to invest in the effort of porting a process to another runtime. In this paper, we define several software quality metrics that quantify the degree of portability of an executable, service-oriented process from different viewpoints. When integrated into a development environment, such metrics can help to improve the portability of the outcome. We validate the metrics theoretically with respect to measurement theory and construct validity using two validation frameworks. The validation is complemented with an empirical evaluation of the metrics using a large set of processes coming from several process libraries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s11761-016-0195-4
Service Oriented Computing and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Portability, Software quality, Metrics, Process, SOA
Software engineering,Portability testing,Computer science,Implementation,Business Process Execution Language,Porting,Software portability,Software metric,Software quality,Database,Executable,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
4
1863-2394
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
40
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jörg Lenhard110012.50
Guido Wirtz245066.55