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A study on service identification methods for software product lines

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The combination of service-orientation and software product line engineering, called Service-Oriented Product Line Engineering (SOPLE) have received attention by researchers and practitioners in the last years, and these areas can address issues of each other. One service-orientation issue is service identification. It consists of determining candidate services to a service-oriented environment based on pre-existing software artifacts, e.g., business process, source code, and so on. In order to provide a systematic identification of services, there are many available service identification methods in the literature, regarding different understanding of services, goals, and techniques. Due to this heterogeneity, this paper presents an in-depth comparison of service identification methods as well as a recommendation of the most suitable ones in the SOPLE context. This work can help the decision making of the most suitable method according to stakeholders' needs.

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SPLC '12: Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2
September 2012
287 pages
ISBN:9781450310956
DOI:10.1145/2364412
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  1. service identification
  2. service-oriented computing
  3. service-oriented product lines
  4. software product lines

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