Yet Another Meta-Model to specify Non-Functional Properties

Antinisca Di Marco (1) , Claudio Pompilio (1) , Antonia Bertolino (2) , Antonello Calabrò (2) , Francesca Lonetti (2) , Antonino Sabetta (3)

1 DI - Dipartimento di Informatica [Italy]
2 CNR | ISTI - CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” [Pisa]
3 SAP Research [Belfast]

In service-oriented systems non-functional properties become very important to support run-time service discovery and composition. Software engineers should take care of them for guaranteeing the service quality in all the software life-cycle phases, from requirements speci cation to design, to system deployment and execution monitoring. This wide scope and the criticality of non-functional properties demand that they are expressed in a language which is intuitive and easy to use for the service quality specifi cation, and at the same time is machine-processable to be automatically handled at run-time. In this paper we present a Property Meta-Model that aims to reach these two main objectives and show as a proof of concept its use for the modeling of two di fferent properties.

Mots clés: Meta-model; non-functional properties; service quality model

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Antinisca Di Marco, Claudio Pompilio, Antonia Bertolino, Antonello Calabrò, Francesca Lonetti, et al.. Yet Another Meta-Model to specify Non-Functional Properties. International Workshop on Quality Assurance for Service-Based Applications (QASBA 2011), Sep 2011, Lugano, Switzerland. ⟨hal-00647360⟩