A Quality Model for Evaluating Reusability of Services in SOA

Abstract

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an effective paradigm for publishing common features as services and reusing the published services in building applications. Therefore, reusability of services is a key criterion for evaluating the quality of services. The evaluation target for reusability in our model is the service, applied to both atomic and composite service. Reusability models for conventional paradigms such as OOP and CBD cannot effectively be applied to services in SOA. Hence, there is a high demand for devising a quality model to evaluate service reusability. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive quality model for evaluating reusability of services.