Understanding features in SOA: some experiences from distributed systems

Authors:
Norman Wilde;Sharon Simmons;Michael Pressel;Joseph Vandeville
Affiliations:
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA;University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA;Northrop Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, FL, USA;Northrop Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, FL, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Systems development in SOA environments
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Practicing software engineers involved in program maintenance frequently need to locate the code that implements a particular user feature. Researchers have developed several tools and techniques to address this problem. We argue that SOA applications, despite their novel architecture, will continue to face the feature location problem. Lessons learned from experience with earlier systems, especially earlier distributed systems, can be useful in identifying the kinds of tools and techniques that will be needed for SOA.