The concept of a scenario has long been utilized in military procurement as a means of evaluating capability in an operational context. With the advent of initiatives such as the USA Department of Defence’s Network-Centric Operations and the UK Ministry of Defence’s Network Enabled Capability, research into the application of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) as a means of delivering capability is being undertaken. A promising output of this research is the definition of scenario based evaluation models that can be applied to SOA. This paper examines the application of a military scenario framework to more conventional software evaluation situations by means of case studies. This demonstrates that similar techniques can be used in their construction and thus provides a basis for the application of scenario based evaluation models in future research.
Index Terms:
SOA, Evaluation, Scenario
Citation:
Nik Looker, David Webster, Duncan Russell, Jie Xu, "Scenario Based Evaluation," isorc, pp.148-154, 2008 11th IEEE Symposium on Object Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2008