Context Smells in software systems impair software quality and make them hard to maintain
and evolve. The software engineering community has explored various dimensions …

In the world of microservices, companies must be able to create systems that operate in the
most efficient way. To achieve this, anti-patterns must be avoided because of their detriment …

While the concepts of object-oriented antipatterns and code smells are prevalent in scientific
literature and have been popularized by tools like SonarQube, the research field for service …

Background: Various works investigated microservice anti-patterns and bad smells in the
past few years. We identified seven secondary publications that summarize these, but they …

Microservices bring various benefits to software systems. They also bring decentralization
and lose coupling across self-contained system parts. Since these systems likely evolve in a …

Web services have emerged as an accessible technology with the standard'Extensible Mark
Up'(XML) language, which is known as' Web Services Description Language'WSDL. Web …

Microservice architecture (MSA) based application developments are becoming the
common trend in implementing large-scale applications. Unlike the traditional monolith …

Context: Security is vital to software developed for commercial or personal use. Although
more organizations are realizing the importance of applying secure coding practices, in …

Cloud-and Microservice-based applications are continuously gaining attention in the field of
practical software engineering as well as in academic research, but the bad practices exist …

To ensure sustainable software maintenance and evolution, a diverse set of activities and
concepts like metrics, change impact analysis, or antipattern detection can be used. Special …