Understanding features in SOA
Norman Wilde, Sharon Simmons, Michael Pressel, Joseph V. Vandeville · 2008
Practicing software engineers involved in program maintenance frequently need to locate the code that implements a particular user feature. Researchers have developed several tools and techniques to address this problem. We argue that SOA applications, despite their novel architecture, will continue to face the feature location problem. Lessons learned from experience with earlier systems, especially earlier distributed systems, can be useful in identifying the kinds of tools and techniques that will be needed for SOA.