Understanding Service-Oriented Systems Using Dynamic Analysis

When trying to understand a system that is based on the principles of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), it is typically not enough to understand the individual services in the architecture, but also the interactions between the services. In this paper, we present a technique based on dynamic analysis that can be used to obtain insight into how services work together to perform overall business functionality. In particular, our technique connects traces from individual services together, so that the user can obtain a global understanding of how the entire SOA works. Paper accepted at the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA 2011