TY - GEN
T1 - Towards SOA implementation complexity measurement enlightened by organization theory
AU - Li, Zheng
AU - O'Brien, Liam
AU - Zhang, He
AU - Keung, Jacky Wai
PY - 2010/6/21
Y1 - 2010/6/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - measurement
KW - organization theory
KW - organizational complexity
KW - service-oriented architecture (SOA)
KW - SOA implementation complexity
U2 - 10.1145/1961258.1961261
DO - 10.1145/1961258.1961261
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053189533
SN - 9781450302814
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 12
EP - 15
BT - PROFES '10: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement, PROFES 2010
Y2 - 21 June 2010 through 23 June 2010
ER -