Measuring web service interfaces

Author

Sneed, Harry M.

Author_Institution

ANECON GmbH, Vienna, Austria

fYear

2010

fDate

17-18 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

115

Abstract

The following short paper describes a tool supported method for measuring web service interfaces. The goal is to assess the complexity and quality of these interfaces as well as to determine their size for estimating evolution and testing effort. Besides the metrics for quantity, quality and complexity, rules are defined for ensuring maintainability. In the end a tool - WSDAudit - is described which the author has developed for the static analysis of web service definitions. The WSDL schemas are automatically audited and measured for quality assurance and cost estimation. Work is underway to verify them against the BPEL procedures from which they are invoked.

Keywords

Web services; program diagnostics; software cost estimation; software maintenance; software metrics; software quality; user interfaces; BPEL procedure; WSDAudit; WSDL schema auditing; Web service interface; cost estimation; interface complexity; interface quality; maintainability; quality assurance; static analysis; Business; Complexity theory; Couplings; Size measurement; Software; Web services; WSDL; code inspection; complexity; interface rule checking; metrics; quality; rule checking; sizing; static analysis; web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Systems Evolution (WSE), 2010 12th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Timisoara

ISSN

1550-4441

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8638-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSE.2010.5623580

Filename

5623580