Development of a Built-in Model for Studying Quality in Web Applications through Simulation

Abstract

The study of cloud computing environments is divided into two main areas: infrastructure and application. At the application level, software architects specify the products following the software services model. This paper proposes a novel simulation-based model that captures data from the software architecture design of web-based applications in order to evaluate quality in the early phases of development. Our proposal integrates i) a semantic model that defines the desired quality properties of the software product, with ii) a modeling tool based on design patterns. The final simulation models are generated automatically by following the combination of both elements. These models are discrete-event simulation models. We use an adaptation of the Discrete Event System Specification called Routed DEVS to define their specification. The Routed DEVS formalism has been designed in a previous work to address the study of routing problems.