Investigation of Service Identification Methods into Service-oriented Modeling Phase
Abolfazl Akbari, Ali Khosrozadeh, Omid Panah, Mostafa Akhy · 2012
Recent changes in client and business requirements are major challenge for development of large-scale systems. There are different methods to deal with that problem as one of them is service-oriented architecture. Serviceoriented architecture comprises various methodologies and life cycles that the first phase is focused on service modeling in all of them. The phase is consisted of three steps including service identification, service specification, service realization. Among these steps, service identification should be placed particular importance due to priority for the application. The reason is that the output of other steps depends on the output of service identification. The given methods are categorized into three parts including prescriptive, semi- automated and automated parts in terms of automation. On the other hand, the existing semi-automated and automated methods are encountered by some problems such as regression performance. We will discuss the existing methods of service identification and its weakness and strength in order to identify services.