The promise of Service Oriented Architecture In his presentation on the Business Value of Service-Oriented Architecture (Ordeedolchest, 2004), Manoo specified 4 major business reasons for implementing a Service Oriented Architecture: Cost, Productivity, Partnership, and Agility. By using a service model in which individual services perform discreet functions based on a well-defined contract, developers can increase […]

Quality assurance in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is necessarily more complex than conventional software. Due to the concept coined by Vinoski (2008) as serendipities reuse, most SOA developers must plan, by default, for unknown uses of their software in future cases. Testing can be done with regards to service load and intended functionality, but for […]