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Understandability Metric for Web Services

Authors:
Usama Maabed
Ahmed Elfatatry
Adel El-Zoghabi

Keywords: SOA; Web services; Usability; Discovery; Web service interface quality.

Abstract:
This work is concerned with developing a quality index for Web service understandability. A major reason for poor search results in Web service repositories is the lack of proper descriptions for existing services and as a result such services are not counted in search results. We present a mechanism to specify and measure Web service interface quality. The mechanism includes metrics for both the registration and operation phases. The evaluation results show significant enhancement in the discovery process as a result of using the proposed mechanism.

Pages: 248 to 255

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016