The recognition of the need for high-quality software architecture is evident from the
increasing trend in investigating architectural smells. Detection of architectural smells is …

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 …

REST is by far the most commonly-used style for designing APIs, especially for mobile
platforms. Indeed, REST APIs are well suited for providing content to apps running on small …

Automated deployment and management of Cloud applications relies on descriptions of
their deployment topologies, often referred to as Infrastructure Code. As the complexity of …

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 …

Purpose Many REpresentational State Transfer (RESTful) Web services suffered from anti-
patterns problem, which may diminish the sustainability of the services. The anti-patterns …

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) define how Web services, middle-wares,
frameworks, and libraries communicate with their clients. An API that conforms to …

Maintainability of a software can be enhanced by using refactoring activities. Refactoring
activities aims at eliminating antipatterns from the system Application of refactoring …

Software Architectural Smells (SA smells) are design problems in the internal structure and
behavior of an SA. These can be seen as a specific category under the umbrella concept of …

The design of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is challenging due to the heterogeneity of
software and hardware components that operate in uncertain environments (eg, fluctuating …