TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring maintainability assurance research for service- And microservice-based systems
T2 - 1st and 2nd International Conference on Microservices, Microservices 2017/2019
AU - Bogner, Justus
AU - Weller, Adrian
AU - Wagner, Stefan
AU - Zimmermann, Alfred
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Justus Bogner, Adrian Weller, Stefan Wagner, and Alfred Zimmermann; licensed under Creative Commons License CC-BY Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019).
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - To ensure sustainable software maintenance and evolution, a diverse set of activities and concepts like metrics, change impact analysis, or antipattern detection can be used. Special maintainability assurance techniques have been proposed for service- and microservice-based systems, but it is difficult to get a comprehensive overview of this publication landscape. We therefore conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to collect and categorize maintainability assurance approaches for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. Our search strategy led to the selection of 223 primary studies from 2007 to 2018 which we categorized with a threefold taxonomy: a) architectural (SOA, microservices, both), b) methodical (method or contribution of the study), and c) thematic (maintainability assurance subfield). We discuss the distribution among these categories and present different research directions as well as exemplary studies per thematic category. The primary finding of our SLR is that, while very few approaches have been suggested for microservices so far (24 of 223, ∼11%), we identified several thematic categories where existing SOA techniques could be adapted for the maintainability assurance of microservices.
AB - To ensure sustainable software maintenance and evolution, a diverse set of activities and concepts like metrics, change impact analysis, or antipattern detection can be used. Special maintainability assurance techniques have been proposed for service- and microservice-based systems, but it is difficult to get a comprehensive overview of this publication landscape. We therefore conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to collect and categorize maintainability assurance approaches for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. Our search strategy led to the selection of 223 primary studies from 2007 to 2018 which we categorized with a threefold taxonomy: a) architectural (SOA, microservices, both), b) methodical (method or contribution of the study), and c) thematic (maintainability assurance subfield). We discuss the distribution among these categories and present different research directions as well as exemplary studies per thematic category. The primary finding of our SLR is that, while very few approaches have been suggested for microservices so far (24 of 223, ∼11%), we identified several thematic categories where existing SOA techniques could be adapted for the maintainability assurance of microservices.
KW - And phrases Maintainability
KW - Microservices
KW - Quality Assurance
KW - Service-Based Systems
KW - SOA
KW - Software Evolution
KW - Systematic Literature Review
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U2 - 10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3
DO - 10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85081621763
T3 - OpenAccess Series in Informatics
BT - Joint Post-Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Conference on Microservices, Microservices 2017/2019
A2 - Cruz-Filipe, Luis
A2 - Giallorenzo, Saverio
A2 - Giallorenzo, Saverio
A2 - Montesi, Fabrizio
A2 - Peressotti, Marco
A2 - Rademacher, Florian
A2 - Sachweh, Sabine
PB - Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
Y2 - 19 February 2019 through 21 February 2019
ER -