A survey of change management in service-based environments

  • Authors:

  • Yi Wang;Ying Wang

  • Affiliations:

  • Southwest University, Chongqing, China;Southwest University, Chongqing, China

  • Venue:
  • Service Oriented Computing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In the service-oriented computing paradigm, cross-organizational applications and information systems can be built upon services from different providers. Services are subject to changes required by the organizational and regulatory policies changes. The challenging problem of service change management has been studied actively in recent years. This paper provides an extensive overview of the current research on change management in the context of service-oriented computing. First, we classify service changes into three major types as interface, behavioral, and non-functional changes. Then, we review the existing work on change management from the four broad categories: Service Adaptation, Process Flexibility, Service Evolution, and Change Analysis and Management in Service Compositions. In each category, we discuss the focusing changes, the proposed approaches to dealing with the change problems, and the change issues that remain to be solved.