Section: New Results

SOA Antipatterns: an Approach for their Specification and Detection

The changes resulting from the evolution of Service Based Systems (SBSs) may degrade their design and quality of service (QoS) and may often cause the appearance of common poor solutions in their architecture, called antipatterns. We introduce a novel and innovative approach supported by a framework for specifying and detecting antipatterns in SBSs [25] . We specify ten well-known and common antipatterns, including Multi Service and Tiny Service, and automatically generate their detection algorithms. We validate the detection algorithms in terms of precision and recall on two systems developed independently. This validation demonstrates that our approach enables the specification and detection of SOA antipatterns with an average precision of 90% and recall of 97.5%.