Client Update: A Solution for Service Evolution

Ouederni, Meriem; Salaün, Gwen; Pimentel, Ernesto

doi:10.1109/scc.2011.57

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“…In a similar spirit, Kaminski et al [38] propose a Chain of Adapters (multiple service http://engine.scichina.com/doi/10.1007/s11432-014-5064-1 interfaces for one implementation version) and Frank et al [39] suggest a service interface proxy (one service interface for multiple implementation versions) for dealing with the incompatibility. In addition, Le Zou [47,48] try to keep client applications synchronized with the evolved service through (semi-) automatic client side update. To address possible interface mismatches, Dumas et al [49] introduces an algebra-based interface adaptation method, in which each interface is represented as an algebra expression that could be transformed and linked accordingly.…”

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Requirements model driven adaption and evolution of Internetware

Liu

Yang

Wang

et al. 2014

Sci. China Inf. Sci.

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Today's software systems need to support complex business operations and processes. The development of the web-based software systems has been pushing up the limits of traditional software engineering methodologies and technologies as they are required to be used and updated almost real-time, so that users can interact and share the same applications over the internet as needed. These applications have to adapt quickly to the diversified and dynamic changing requirements in the physical, technological, economical and social environments. As a consequence, we are expecting a major paradigm shift in software engineering to reflect such changes in computing environment in order to better address the fundamental needs of organisations in this new era. Existing software technologies, such as model driven development, business process engineering, online (re-)configuration, composition and adaptation of managerial functionalities are being repurposed to reduce the time taken for software development by reusing software codes. The ability to dynamically combine contents from numerous web sites and local resources, and the ability to instantly publish services worldwide have opened up entirely new possibilities for software development. In retrospect to the ten years applied research on Internetware, we have witnessed such a paradigm shift, which brings about many changes to the developmental experience of conventional web applications. Several related technologies, such as cloud computing, service computing, cyber-physical systems and social computing, have converged to address this emerging issue with emphasis on different aspects. In this paper, we first outline the requirements that the Internetware software paradigm should meet to excel at web application adaptation; we then propose a requirement model driven method for adaptive and evolutionary applications; and we report our experiences and case studies of applying it to an enterprise information system. Our goal is to provide high-level guidelines to researchers and practitioners to meet the challenges of building adaptive industrial-strength applications with the spectrum of processes, techniques and facilities provided within the Internetware paradigm.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Requirements model driven adaption and evolution of Internetware

Liu

Yang

Wang

et al. 2014

Sci. China Inf. Sci.

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“…In addition, [34] and [35] try to keep client applications being synchronized with evolved services through (semi-) automatic client update. In the framework of [34], the authors at first analyze the delta between different versions of a service and export it into a wellformatted document.…”

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“…Drawing on the clients' usage history, they then employ a Consumer Code Customizer component to highlight the client code fragments that need to be updated. Also, [35] introduces a framework to resolve interface and behavior mismatches through updating the clients automatically based on compatibility measuring and interface/behavior mapping.…”

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confidence: 99%

Software Service Evolution: A Requirements Perspective

Liu

Mylopoulos

2012

2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops

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Abstract-Software service has to adapt to constant changes of requirements and environment, which would give rise to the concentration on service evolution. Among the many reasons for evolution, requirements are regarded as the major driving factor. However, most current work on service evolution focuses on different kinds of tactics to keep the compatibility between services and client applications, few of them treat requirements in priority. In this paper, we thoroughly survey the state-of-the-art studies on service evolution, including basic concepts, types, challenges and approaches; then analyze service evolution from four dissimilar dimensions, and for each one we identify the open problems and inadequacies. Based on our analysis and discovery, we argue that requirements driven service evolution would become an essential and promising research direction.

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