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Web Services are influencing most IT-based industries as the basic building block of business infrastructures. A Web Service has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Service providers expose their services by publishing the corresponding WSDL documents. Service consumers can learn about service capability and how to interact with the services. Service descriptions (WSDL documents) should be ideally understood easily by service stakeholders so that the process of consuming services is simplified. In this work we present a practical metric to quantify readability in WSDL documents – attending to their semantics by using WordNet as the underlying concept hierarchy. In addition, we propose a set of best practices to be used during the development of WSDL documents to improve their readability. To validate our proposals, we performed both qualitative and quantitative …