Service Evolution and Maintainability
Bijoy Majumdar · IGI Global eBooks · 2010
Change is the only constant, and this concept holds good for services too. Service maintenance is the most tedious and longest phase of service lifecycle. The more complex the service, the more difficult it is to maintain it. Service maintenance and service evolution mandate a series of best practices and selective models to apply for better execution and administration. In this chapter we detail the challenges faced in service evolution management and the key activities involved, and their role in service-oriented architecture (SOA) quality.