Paper Info
Title
Automatically measuring the maintainability of service- and microservice-based systems: a literature review.
Abstract
In a time of digital transformation, the ability to quickly and efficiently adapt software systems to changed business requirements becomes more important than ever. Measuring the maintainability of software is therefore crucial for the long-term management of such products. With Service-based Systems (SBSs) being a very important form of enterprise software, we present a holistic overview of such metrics specifically designed for this type of system, since traditional metrics - e.g. object-oriented ones - are not fully applicable in this case. The selected metric candidates from the literature review were mapped to 4 dominant design properties: size, complexity, coupling, and cohesion. Microservice-based Systems (μSBSs) emerge as an agile and fine-grained variant of SBSs. While the majority of identified metrics are also applicable to this specialization (with some limitations), the large number of services in combination with technological heterogeneity and decentralization of control significantly impacts automatic metric collection in such a system. Our research therefore suggest that specialized tool support is required to guarantee the practical applicability of the presented metrics to μSBSs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3143434.3143443
IWSM-Mensura
Field
DocType
Citations 
Software engineering,Systems engineering,Enterprise software,Computer science,Digital transformation,Software system,Agile software development,Software,Business requirements,Microservices,Maintainability
Conference
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Justus Bogner150.50
Stefan Wagner210929.08
Alfred Zimmermann32612.90