TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Amoroso d'Aragona, Dario
A1  - Pascarella, Luca
A1  - Janes, Andrea
A1  - Lenarduzzi, Valentina
A1  - Taibi, Davide
T1  - Microservice logical coupling
BT  - A preliminary validation
JF  - 2023 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 13-17 March 2023, L'Aquila, Italy
N2  - Coupling is one of the most frequently mentioned metric in software systems. However, to measure logical coupling between microservices, runtime information is needed or the availability of service-log files to analyze the calls between services is required. This work presents our emerging results, in which we propose a metric to statically calculate logical coupling between microservices based on commits to versioning systems. We performed an initial validation of the proposed metric with a dataset containing 145 open-source microservices projects. The results illustrate how logical coupling affects every system and increases overtime. However, we did not find a correlation between the number of commits or the number of developers and the introduction of logical coupling. In future, we investigate why, how, and when logical coupling is introduced in a system.
KW  - logical coupling
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-1-6654-6459-8
SB  - 978-1-6654-6459-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C57050.2023.00028
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C57050.2023.00028
SP  - 81
EP  - 85
S1  - 5
PB  - IEEE
CY  - Piscataway, NJ
ER  -