A collaborative framework for evaluation of run-time changes in enterprise web services

  • Authors:
  • M. Thirumaran;P. Dhavachelvan;G. Naga Venkata Kiran

  • Affiliations:
  • Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry [U.T], India;Pondicherry University, Puducherry [U.T], India;Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry [U.T], India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Increasing market demand and technology in today's world has made change management an inevitable one. To remain competitive, organizations must be able to respond to change in a timely and cost effective manner. Although there are many change management issues and solutions, there is no proper support for efficient change evaluation and monitoring. Present change management works are done only in the web service interface such as WSDL Web Service Definition Language and there is no proper support for dynamic nature in them. In this paper, we propose a novel dependency analysis approach for evaluating the changes specified by the analyst in an effective manner and a FSM based model is utilized for exhibiting the dynamic nature. This measure of change evaluation ensures that the business analyst has a direct control over the changes he makes and provides an environment that notifies the analyst about the outcome in a meaningful way. We propose a set of five change factors based on which the dependency existing between the business rules, functions and parameters is analyzed. These change factors are also involved in the change evaluation that makes the changes to be specified in a precise and formal manner. We develop a prototype system of the proposed model to demonstrate its effectiveness. We also conduct an experimental study to assess the performance of the change management along with the change measure as an output.