Abstract:One of the key principles of the service orientation is the standardised service contract. However, the assumption that the service contract is kept unmodified during the whole life-cycle of a system is not always held. Evolution changes on the service APIs have an impact on the maintainability of their programming clients within the system making difficult the continuous integration of the services. The metrics that have currently been applied to assess the service maintainability assess the service coupling,… Show more
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