Web Services Quality Factors Version 1.0

Provides a standard for quality factors of web services in their development, usage and management. Web services usually have distinguished characteristics. They are service-oriented, network-based, variously bind-able, loosely-coupled, platform independent, and standard-protocol based. As a result, a web service system requires its own quality factors unlike installation-based software. For instance, as the quality of web services can be altered in real-time according to changes by the service provider, considering real-time properties of web services is very meaningful in describing the web services quality. This document presents the quality factors of web services with definition, classification, and sub-factors case by case. For each quality factor, related specifications are cited with a brief explanation. This specification can be generally extended to the definition of quality of SOA and to provide the foundation for quality in the SOA system.

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