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Continuous Dependability Assessment of Microservice Systems

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In this paper, we overview the tutorial presented at the 16th European Conference on Software Architecture. The tutorial’s goal was to summarize the challenges and approaches for verification and validation in microservices systems. We introduced the PPTAM approach for dependability assessment. PPTAM employs a variety of architectural artifacts and steps, including the use of operational data obtained from production-level application performance management (APM) tools, the automated assessment of load tests based on defined scalability requirements, and the development of computationally efficient algorithms for software performance anti-pattern (SPA) detection that could be implemented in CI/CD pipelines.

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Notes

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    The relative call frequency represents the proportion that a service contributes to accomplish the task of the system under study. If a service contributes 10% and fails, we consider the system to be 90% functional.

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    PPTAM including a demo is publicly available at https://github.com/pptam.

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    https://openapm.io/.

  4. 4.

    https://www.influxdata.com/.

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    https://jupyter.org/.

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    https://locust.io.

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  1. eSulab Solutions, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Alberto Avritzer

  2. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Camilli

  3. FHV Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Dornbirn, Austria

    Andrea Janes

  4. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Barbara Russo

  5. Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy

    Catia Trubiani

  6. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    André van Hoorn

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Avritzer, A., Camilli, M., Janes, A., Russo, B., Trubiani, C., van Hoorn, A. (2023). Continuous Dependability Assessment of Microservice Systems. In: Batista, T., Bureš, T., Raibulet, C., Muccini, H. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2022 Tracks and Workshops. ECSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13928. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_11

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