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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3
Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences

Authors: Justus Bogner, Adrian Weller, Stefan Wagner, and Alfred Zimmermann

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 78, Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019)

Abstract
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.
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Justus Bogner, Adrian Weller, Stefan Wagner, and Alfred Zimmermann. Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences. 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. 3:1-3:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{bogner_et_al:OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3,
  author =	{Bogner, Justus and Weller, Adrian and Wagner, Stefan and Zimmermann, Alfred},
  title =	{{Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences}},
  booktitle =	{Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:22},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-137-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{78},
  editor =	{Cruz-Filipe, Lu{\'\i}s and Giallorenzo, Saverio and Montesi, Fabrizio and Peressotti, Marco and Rademacher, Florian and Sachweh, Sabine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-118255},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maintainability, Software Evolution, Quality Assurance, Service-Based Systems, SOA, Microservices, Systematic Literature Review}
}
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