Exploring SOA Pattern Performance Using Coupled Transformations and Performance Models.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) patterns can be applied to improve different qualities of SOA designs. The performance impact of a pattern (improvement or degra- dation) may affect its use, so we assess its impact by automatically generated performance models for the original design and for each candidate pattern and pattern variation. This paper proposes a technique to incrementally propagate the changes from the software to the performance model. The technique formally records the refactoring of the design model when applying a pattern, and uses this record to generate a coupled transformation of the performance model. The SOA design is modeled in UML extended with two profiles, SoaML and MARTE; the patterns are specified using Role Based Modeling and the performance model is expressed in Layered Queuing Networks. Application of the process, and pattern performance exploration, is demonstrated on a case study.