NDLI: An Empirical Study on Design Diversity of Functionally Equivalent Web Services

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nascimento, A.S. Castor, F. Rubira, C.M.F. Burrows, R.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	A number of approaches based on design diversity moderate the communication between clients and functionally equivalent services, i.e., variant services, to tolerate software faults in service-oriented applications. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether variant services are actually diverse and fail on disjoint subsets of the input space. In a previous work, we proposed an experimental setup to assess design diversity of variant services that realize a requirements specification. In this work, we utilize the proposed experimental setup to assess the design diversity of a number of third-party Web services adhering to seven different requirements specifications. In this paper, we describe in detail the main findings and lessons learnt from this empirical study. Firstly, we investigate whether variant services are in fact diverse. Secondly, we investigate the effectiveness of service diversity for tolerating faults. The results suggest that there is diversity in the implementation of variant services. However, in some cases, this diversity might not be sufficient to improve system reliability. Our findings provide an important knowledge basis for engineering effective fault-tolerant service applications.
Starting Page	236
Ending Page	241
File Size	234727
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467322447
DOI	10.1109/ARES.2012.57
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-08-20
Publisher Place	Czech Republic
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Fault tolerance Fault tolerant systems Empirical studies Fault-tolerant systems Reliability engineering Software Service-oriented applications Software reliability Electronic mail
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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