AN INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY ON SOA QUALITY EVALUATION

During these last years, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has known a meteoric rise and more and more companies are lured by this technology and its strengths (reusability, costs benefits and productivity increase) because of an improved control of the business expectations. This technology could bring a lot of benefits but there may also appear some major complications while disrupting the company organization to adopt it. First and foremost among these, is the risk of not being able to answer favourably to expectations in terms of quality of services. As these risks are distributed through all the services, the question of evaluating SOA has recently arisen. In this light, before adopting SOA, it is fundamental to evaluate the quality of the architecture to set up. This paper presents a tool enabling the assessment of a software oriented architecture based on a model called SOAQE allowing architecture decomposition with the aim of evaluating it easier. The SOAQE model, validated by the software engineering community, served as a basis for the elaboration of this new generation of tools returning results under textual and graphical forms for a better understanding of data