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Evaluation Criteria Catalog

In order to evaluate different technological approaches concerning the Saga pattern, some criteria have to be defined against which the evaluation can be performed. The following sections consider several areas of interest related to characteristics of microservices and the Saga pattern as well as some quality attributes of the ISO/IEC 25010 Quality Models1. For each area, the aspects that an evaluator should examine are explained and described. Some of the described criteria have been taken from the previous paper published by Dürr et al. [3]. The aim is to create a criteria catalog that can be used to analyze other technologies in this context.

Table of Contents

  1. General Saga Characteristics

  2. Monitoring

  3. Expandability

  4. Fault Tolerance

  5. Security

  6. Testability

  7. Portability

  8. OSS Characteristics

References

[1] N. Alshuqayran, N. Ali, and R. Evans, "A Systematic Mapping Study in Microservice Architecture." IEEE Computer Society, 2016, pp. 44–51. [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SOCA.2016.15

[2] S. Newman, Building Microservices – Designing Fine–Grained Systems, 1st ed. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2015, ISBN: 9781491950357.

[3] K. Dürr, R. Lichtenthäler, and G. Wirtz, "An Evaluation of Saga Pattern Implementation Technologies," in Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Services and their Composition (ZEUS 2021), Bamberg, Germany, February 25–26, 2021, ser. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2839. CEUR-WS.org, 2021, pp. 74–82. [Online]. Available: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2839/paper12.pdf

[4] D. Cruz, T. Wieland, and A. Ziegler, "Evaluation Criteria for Free/Open Source Software Products Based on Project Analysis," Software Process: Improvement and Practice, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 107–122, 2006. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/spip.257

[5] J. P. Confino and P. A. Laplante, "An Open Source Software Evaluation Model," Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 60–77, 2010. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2010101505

[6] T. Cerny, M. J. Donahoo, and M. Trnka, "Contextual Understanding of Microservice Architecture: Current and Future Directions," ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 29–45, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3183628.3183631

[7] O. Zimmermann, "Microservices Tenets," Computer Science – Research and Development, vol. 32, no. 3–4, pp. 301–310, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00450-016-0337-0

  1. https://iso25000.com/index.php/en/iso-25000-standards/iso-25010?start=0, last accessed 2021-07-06 ↩

Last update: 2022-02-15
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