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Towards a Quality Model for Cloud-native Applications

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Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022)

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Abstract

Cloud-native is a recent paradigm for web-based service-oriented applications. Because it covers a wide range of concepts and lacks a commonly accepted definition, evaluating software architectures according to it is difficult. Therefore, a quality model is presented, aligned with the Quamoco meta model and based on both practitioner books and scientific literature. It focuses on the design time and considers multiple quality attributes in relation. This initial quality model together with an evaluation of already existing measures is intended as a basis for approaches aiming to evaluate cloud-native application architectures.

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    https://r0light.github.io/cna-quality-model/.

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Lichtenthäler, R., Wirtz, G. (2022). Towards a Quality Model for Cloud-native Applications. In: Montesi, F., Papadopoulos, G.A., Zimmermann, W. (eds) Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04718-3_7

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