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One of the most challenging problems in migrating a monolith to a microservice architecture is the identification of the microservices boundaries. Several approaches have recently been proposed for the automatic identification of microservices, which, even though following the same basic steps, diverge on how data from the monolith system are collected and analyzed. In this paper, we compare the decompositions generated for two monolith systems into a set of candidate microservices, when static and dynamic analysis data collection techniques are used. As a result of the analysis, we conclude that neither of the analysis techniques, static or dynamic, outperforms the other, but the dynamic collection of data requires more effort.
This work was partially supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through projects UIDB/50021/2020 (INESC-ID) and PTDC/CCI-COM/2156/2021 (DACOMICO).
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Andrade, B., Santos, S., Silva, A.R. (2023). A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Analysis to Identify Microservices in Monolith Systems. In: Tekinerdogan, B., Trubiani, C., Tibermacine, C., Scandurra, P., Cuesta, C.E. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42592-9_25
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