FASOAD: A Framework for Agile Service-Oriented Architectures Development

Abstract

The development of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) requires modeling a service development process that covers the entire lifecycle of such architectures and allows an iterative and incremental development. In addition, the change of either environment execution conditions, or requirements, during the development may require the evolution of the process. In this paper, we present a framework named FASOAD that addresses this issue. FASOAD implements the phases of an agile approach for SOA development as a component assembly model. Based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) model, this framework allows developing SOA projects and enforcing the agile methods principles. In addition, we address the case of the dynamic reconfiguration of service-oriented architectures in presence of an evolution of their development process. A case study is presented to illustrate the approach.