A Review on Dependency Analysis of SOA

Abstract—This paper presents a survey of Dependency Analysis of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems. SOA presents newer aspects of dependency analysis due to its different architectural style and programming paradigm. This paper surveys the previous work taken on dependency analysis of service oriented systems. This study shows the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches and tools available for dependency analysis task in context of SOA. The main motivation of this work is to summarize the recent approaches in this field of research, identify major issue and challenges in dependency analysis of SOA based systems and motivate further research on this topic. Index Terms—Service oriented architecture, Software services, Dependency analysi