The Analysis Activity in a Systematic SOA-based Architecture Process

Architecture processes emerged to aid the architects in the construction of software architecture descriptions. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emerged as a type of software architecture to build systems through the composition of services. On the one hand, the traditional architecture processes do not comprise some SOA features. On the other hand, the available SOA approaches do not fulfill all the software architecture foundations. In this sense, this paper presents the Analysis Activity of a systematic SOA-based architecture process that comprises the main software architecture foundations and SOA features, such as quality attribute orientation, support for multiple development teams, service identification and categorization, and service-orientation principles.