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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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T1 - On the nature of issues in five open source microservices systems
T2 - 25th Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE 2021
AU - Waseem, Muhammad
AU - Liang, Peng
AU - Shahin, Mojtaba
AU - Ahmad, Aakash
AU - Nassab, Ali Rezaei
PY - 2021/6/21
Y1 - 2021/6/21
N2 - Due to its enormous benefits, the research and industry communities have shown an increasing interest in the Microservices Architecture (MSA) style over the last few years. Despite this, there is a limited evidence-based and thorough understanding of the types of issues (e.g., faults, errors, failures, mistakes) faced by microservices system developers and causes that trigger the issues. Such evidence-based understanding of issues and causes is vital for long-term, impactful, and quality research and practice in the MSA style. To that end, we conducted an empirical study on 1, 345 issue discussions extracted from five open source microservices systems hosted on GitHub. Our analysis led to the first of its kind taxonomy of the types of issues in open source microservices systems, informing that the problems originating from Technical debt (321, 23.86%), Build (145, 10.78%), Security (137, 10.18%), and Service execution and communication (119, 8.84%) are prominent. We identified that "General programming errors", "Poor security management", "Invalid configuration and communication", and "Legacy versions, compatibility and dependency"are the predominant causes for the leading four issue categories. Study results streamline a taxonomy of issues, their mapping with underlying causes, and present empirical findings that could facilitate research and development on emerging and next-generation microservices systems.
AB - Due to its enormous benefits, the research and industry communities have shown an increasing interest in the Microservices Architecture (MSA) style over the last few years. Despite this, there is a limited evidence-based and thorough understanding of the types of issues (e.g., faults, errors, failures, mistakes) faced by microservices system developers and causes that trigger the issues. Such evidence-based understanding of issues and causes is vital for long-term, impactful, and quality research and practice in the MSA style. To that end, we conducted an empirical study on 1, 345 issue discussions extracted from five open source microservices systems hosted on GitHub. Our analysis led to the first of its kind taxonomy of the types of issues in open source microservices systems, informing that the problems originating from Technical debt (321, 23.86%), Build (145, 10.78%), Security (137, 10.18%), and Service execution and communication (119, 8.84%) are prominent. We identified that "General programming errors", "Poor security management", "Invalid configuration and communication", and "Legacy versions, compatibility and dependency"are the predominant causes for the leading four issue categories. Study results streamline a taxonomy of issues, their mapping with underlying causes, and present empirical findings that could facilitate research and development on emerging and next-generation microservices systems.
KW - Empirical Study
KW - Issue
KW - Microservice
KW - Microservices Architecture
KW - Open Source Software
U2 - 10.1145/3463274.3463337
DO - 10.1145/3463274.3463337
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85108903083
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 201
EP - 210
BT - Proceedings of EASE 2021 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
PB - The Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 June 2021 through 24 June 2021
ER -