Software Evolution based on Service-Oriented Requirement in Internetware

Internet techniques have been changing tremendously due to globalising computing environment. Open, dynamic, uncertain and uncontrollable features of internet environment have brought new challenges and complexity to traditional software technologies and software running platform. In order to resolve these new challenges, Internetware has been proposed as an emerging and new software paradigm, which should be autonomous, cooperative, evolvable, and trustworthy. In this paper, the status and explorations of Internetware paradigm will be discussed and analysed. According to the features of Internetware paradigm, a service-oriented requirements approach of reengineering techniques on how to make software application evolvable in Internet computing environment is proposed in the paper. Meanwhile, an example shows how to use the proposed approach and framework is illustrated. The paper also discusses the ongoing research and future research of Internetware design.