Towards SOA implementation complexity measurement enlightened by organization theory

Zheng Li*, Liam O'Brien, He Zhang, Jacky Wai Keung

*Corresponding author for this work

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

When implementing information infrastructures to support business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems are inevitably more complex than traditional architecture based systems. Therefore, it is essential to measure the implementation complexity to avoid development that is unworthy of adopting SOA. However, there is little work that covers the SOA implementation complexity measurement with comprehensive analysis. By adopting existing work related to organizational complexity, this paper proposes a framework for comprehending and measuring the organizational complexity of SOA implementation, which comprises four dimensions: Structure, Environment, Business and Resource. Along each dimension, some SOA-compatible metrics have been extracted from the corresponding research on organizational complexity. More importantly, this proposed framework can be used for future work in proposing metrics for integrally and quantitatively calculating the complexity of implementing SOA.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPROFES '10: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages12-15
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781450302814
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement, PROFES 2010 - Limerick, Ireland
Duration: 21 Jun 201023 Jun 2010

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement, PROFES 2010
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityLimerick
Period21/06/201023/06/2010

Keywords

  • measurement
  • organization theory
  • organizational complexity
  • service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  • SOA implementation complexity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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