Paper Info
Title
State of the Practice in Service Identification for SOA Migration in Industry.
Abstract
The migration of legacy software systems to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has become a mainstream trend for modernizing enterprise software systems. A key step in SOA migration is the identification of services in the target application, but it is a challenging one to the extent that the potential services (1) embody reusable functionalities, (2) can be developed in a cost-effective manner, and (3) should be easy to maintain. In this paper, we report on state of the practice of SOA migration in industry. We surveyed 45 practitioners of legacy-to-SOA migration to understand how migration, in general, and service identification (SI), in particular are done. Key findings include: (1) reducing maintenance costs is a key driver in SOA migration, (2) domain knowledge and source code of legacy applications are most often used respectively in a hybrid top-down and bottom-up approach for SI, (3) industrial SI methods focus on domain services–as opposed to technical services, (4) there is very little automation of SI in industry, and (5) RESTful services and microservices are the most frequent target architectures. We conclude with a set of recommendations and best practices.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
ICSOC
Best practice,Software engineering,Domain knowledge,Source code,Computer science,Enterprise software,Real-time computing,Automation,Microservices,Service-oriented architecture,Legacy system
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manel Abdellatif164.56
Geoffrey Hecht2554.71
Hafedh Mili371586.43
Ghizlane El Boussaidi41198.52
Naouel Moha558240.72
Anas Shatnawi6599.69
Jean Privat7178.22
Yann-Gael Gueheneuc82723141.93