Abstract
Increasingly, software systems such as all kinds of intelligent systems are developed based on so called small microservices. The goal is, to make the resulting software system more flexible and to make it better to handle. Despite the many advantages, the use of such an approach increases the complexity of the system. This also has an immense impact on the procedure and the effort of the analysis, evaluation and especially the test of a system. As contributions of this paper, we will first discuss the challenges that a microservice architecture brings compared to a monolithic approach. Subsequently, it will be discussed how the analysis and the test of individual microservices could be realized and finally, some tools will be presented, which should support the developer with these two tasks. We limit ourselves to an initial analysis of microservices for the development (also) of intelligent systems by means of an example and an overview of some popular development and test strategies, like those from Google’s development team.
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von Perbandt, C., Tyca, M., Koschel, A., Astrova, I. (2022). Development Support for Intelligent Systems: Test, Evaluation, and Analysis of Microservices. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82193-7_58
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