Data Complexity Metrics for XML Web Services

Abstract

Web services that are based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML) technologies enable integration of diverse IT processes and systems and have been gaining extraordinary acceptance from the basic to the most complicated business and scientific processes. The maintainability is one of the important factors that affect the quality of the Web services that can be seen a kind of software project. The effective management of any type of software projects requires modelling, measurement, and quantification. This study presents a metric for the assessment of the quality of the Web services in terms of its maintainability. For this purpose we proposed a data complexity metric that can be evaluated by analyzing WSDL (Web Service Description Language) documents used for describing Web services.

Keywords

• web services
• XMl
• WSDL
• complexity metrics