Specification and Detection of SOA Antipatterns

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a collection of principles and methodologies for designing and developing service-based systems (SBSs). SBSs are composed of loosely-coupled, platform independent, and reusable functional units, i.e., services. Alternative technologies to implement SBSs are REST-style (Representational State Transfer), Service Component Architecture (SCA), SOAP-based Web service, and so on. However, SBSs cannot overcome some common software engineering challenges, e.g., evolution, to fit new user requirements or changes in execution contexts. All these changes may degrade the quality of design and quality of service of SBSs and may cause the presence of common bad practiced solutions -- antipatterns.