Variation-Oriented Analysis for SOA Solution Design

Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented enterprises: A systematic review

“…Such changes may have severe impact on related business processes and composite services at higher levels. Surprisingly, very few studies [46,59,63,79,86,89] have focused on the bottom-up impact of service changes. In the context of bottom-up change propagation, the lazy and strict change propagation methods have been discussed but bottom-up impact analysis techniques focused on specific kinds of changes and dependencies, i.e.…”

“…service outage [63], binding changes or service replacement [59], and many-toone relationships between services and business processes [79]. Other studies have emphasized specific operations like fault management [46], change feature versioning [86] and variation analysis [89]. Bottom-up change propagation can be viewed as lazy and strict propagation [41].…”

Supporting Change Propagation in the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented Architectures

“…The work in [21] proposes an topdown approach to analyze the impact of changes in business processes upon the source code, and uses this analysis to identify affected system components. On the other hand, the work in [22] proposes a bottom-up approach in which they provide a set of generic guidelines for assessing changes made to a service or its implementation and their impact to the business processes and other consumers of the service. Change impact analysis is however only loosely related to our work.…”

Formalizing "Traceability' for Architectural Evolutions

“…Our SOA modeling approach is based on a generic SOA design approach [18], which is a multistep design process. Throughout the design phase, the architects are guided by multiple domain-specific patterns, transformations and other previously used design decisions.…”