Early Guessing of Performance Using Simulation as Part of Service Development

In Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), the key problem is the quick and accurate evaluation of web service performance. Despite the fact that the integration of the simulation step into the development cycle of softwares/web services can allow to learn early the behavior of the performance of software/web service, it is still a challenge to use simulation as part of service development. This integration can be used to assess the performance of a family of web services by developing one of them. In this paper, we propose a methodology that shows how the simulation step can be integrated to the development cycle of a family of services using a model-based approach to describe the services and by choosing a reference web service to be developed and used to guess the performance of the remaining services in the family.