An Agile Method for E-Service Composition

TL;DR

This paper introduces an agile development method tailored for composing electronic services within Service Oriented Architecture, emphasizing rapid, low-cost, high-quality creation of composite services using agile principles.

Contribution

It presents a novel agile methodology specifically designed for service composition in SOA, inspired by agile patterns and practices.

Findings

Enables quick development of composite services

Reduces costs while maintaining quality

Aligns with agile principles for service-oriented systems

Abstract

Nowadays, application of Service Oriented Architecture is increasing rapidly; especially since introduction of distributed electronic services on the web. SOA software has a modular manner and works as a collaboration of independent software components. As a result, e-service approach is sufficient for software with independent components, each of which may be developed by a different company. Such software components and their cooperation form a composite service. Agile methodologies are the best candidate for developing small software components. Composite services and its building blocks are small pieces of software, making agile methodology a perfect fit for their development. In this paper, we introduce an agile method for service composition, inspired by agile patterns and practices. Therefore, across the agile manifesto, we can develop low cost, high quality composite services quickly using this method.