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Lookup NU author(s): YUAN CHEN, Dr Anatoliy Gorbenko, Emeritus Professor Alexander RomanovskyORCiD
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The paper investigates the uncertainty of Web Services performance and the instability of their communication medium (the Internet), and shows the influence of these two factors on the overall dependability of SOA. We present our practical experience in benchmarking and measuring the behaviour of a number of existing Web Services used in e-science and bio-informatics, provide the results of statistical data analysis and discuss the probability distribution of delays contributing to the Web Services response time. The ratio between delay standard deviation and its average value is introduced to measure the performance uncertainty of a Web Service. Finally, we present the results of error and fault injection into Web Services. We summarise our experiments with SOA-specific exception handling features provided by two web service development kits and analyse exception propagation and performance as the major factors affecting fault tolerance (in particular, error handling and fault diagnosis) in Web Services.
Author(s): Chen Y, Gorbenko A, Kharchenko V, Romanovsky A
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2010
Pages: 31
Print publication date: 01/11/2010
Source Publication Date: November 2010
Report Number: 1225
Institution: Newcastle University
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
