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PREvant (Preview Servant): Composing Microservices into Reviewable and Testable Applications

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Marc Schreiber
  • aixigo AG, Aachen, Germany

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Marc Schreiber. PREvant (Preview Servant): Composing Microservices into Reviewable and Testable Applications. In Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 78, pp. 5:1-5:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.5

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This paper introduces PREvant (preview servant), a software tool which provides a simple RESTful API for deploying and composing containerized microservices as reviewable applications. PREvant’s API serves as a connector between continuous delivery pipelines of microservices and the infrastructure that hosts the applications. Based on the REST API and a web interface developers and domain experts at aixigo AG developed quality assurance workflows that help to increase and maintain high microservice quality.

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  • Software and its engineering → Software creation and management
  • Software and its engineering
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  • Microservice development
  • testing for microservices
  • exploratory testing
  • development workflows

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