A Research on SOA in the IT Industry of Pakistan

Many architectural patterns and styles are used for bringing in quality in software's such as client-server, component-based, event-driven and data-centric architectures. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a new trend for improving the quality attributes of software such as interoperability and availability. Although, research studies claim that SOA adoption is widely used in practice, it is not very clear that is it used in the same way in under developed countries such as Pakistan. This research study analyzes the usage of SOA by the IT industry of Pakistan. In this paper, several opinions of professionals are collected from IT industry who belongs to different companies from all over the Pakistan. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews helped as investigation tools for this research and the outcomes are analyzed on their responses. Results indicate that 76 % of the IT companies in Pakistan are using SOA. Most of the companies are using tool-based approach for development. Results also indicate a rising tendency of SOA adoption by Pakistan IT industry in upcoming years.