Traceability Between Service Component and Class

Service components are the key to the development of a serviceoriented solution as they provide the implementation of the services. The implementation of Service components provides the actual function of the component and can be defined with one or more Java classes. We propose a model named Service Component to Class (SC2C) that maps the service components of an application with that of the classes that implement the service components. We also propose a visual model as a part of SC2C that represents the classes and relationship among classes. This model helps to establish traceability among service components and classes. We also introduce some traceability metrics to measure traceability between the artifacts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Object Oriented (OO) paradigms. This work, along with our earlier work, help in Software Configuration Management of a SOA application. We provide an insurance system case study to illustrate our approach.