A Software Standard and Metric Based Framework for Evaluating Service Oriented Architecture

The paper proposes a metric based framework for evaluating service oriented architecture. Different models and metrics have been proposed in different perspective for evaluating service oriented architecture, but it has been recognized that the available models and metrics are insufficient. This paper gives a software standard based way to identify measurable attributes to propose metrics. This paper proposes four steps. In the first step the attributes of qualities and characteristics of services are identified from software and service standards. In the second step, sets of attributes for each quality and characteristic which are not having metrics are formed by comparing with the available metrics. In the third step metrics and models have to proposed and validated for the sets which are identified in the second step. Finally, with the proposed metrics and models service oriented architecture can be evaluated. Thus this paper proposes a framework for proposing a complete set of metrics as a standard for evaluating service oriented architecture. Keywords-Standards, metric based framework, Service Oriented Architectrure, SOA, evaluation