Software Product Line Engineering to Develop Variant-Rich Web Services

  • Bardia Mohabbati
  • Mohsen Asadi
  • Dragan Gašević
  • Jaejoon Lee
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Abstract

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables enterprise for distributed and flexible software development. SOA aims at promoting effective software asset reuse by means of encapsulating functionalities as reusable services accessible through well-defined interfaces. However, one of the challenging problems for the realization of this vision is an need for design and management of variants of SOA-based solutions. Such SOA-based solutions require customization to meet stakeholders’ individual functional and non-functional requirements. In this chapter, a methodological foundation for modeling and developing variant-rich SOA-solutions by incorporating the principles of Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) into the SOA development life cycle .

Keywords

Business Process Product Family Composite Service Business Process Model Reference Architecture 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Bardia Mohabbati
    • 1
  • Mohsen Asadi
    • 1
  • Dragan Gašević
    • 1
    • 2
  • Jaejoon Lee
    • 3
  1. 1.Simon Fraser UniversityBurnabyCanada
  2. 2.Athabasca UniversityBurnabyCanada
  3. 3.Lancaster UniversityLancasterUK

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