Paper Info
Title
Measuring the understandability of WSDL specifications, web service understanding degree approach and system.
Abstract
Web Services (WS) are fundamental software artifacts for building service oriented applications and they are usually reused by others. Therefore they must be analyzed and comprehended for maintenance tasks: identification of critical parts, bug fixing, adaptation and improvement. In this article, WSDLUD a method aimed at measuring a priori the understanding degree (UD) of WSDL (Web Service Description Language) descriptions is presented. In order to compute UD several criteria useful to measure the understanding's complexity of WSDL descriptions must be defined. These criteria are used by LSP (Logic Scoring of Preference), a multicriteria evaluation method, for producing a Global Preference value that indicates the satisfaction level of the WSDL description regarding the evaluation focus, in this case, the understanding degree. All the criteria information required by LSP is extracted from WSDL descriptions by using static analysis techniques and processed by specific algorithms which allow gathering semantic information. This process allows to obtain a priori information about the comprehension difficulty which proves our research hypotheses that states that it is possible to compute the understanding degree of a WSDL description.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.2298/CSIS160124026B
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
WSDL,Web Services Comprehension,LSP
World Wide Web,Computer science,WS-I Basic Profile,Web service
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
SP3
1820-0214
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mario Beron122.78
Hernán Bernardis220.70
Enrique Miranda3152.29
Daniel Edgardo Riesco400.68
Maria João Varanda Pereira514518.03
Pedro Rangel Henriques627757.91