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Criticality of Components in Service-Oriented Distributed Systems

AutorMaxim Tschumak, Axel Heßler
Quelle44th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Krems an der Donau, Austria 
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Modern architectural principles, like the microservice approach, introduce new challenges to the design and evolution of distributed systems. The diversity and number of components in a system landscape, as well as composite interactions between the components, causes higher overall complexity of the system. This paper presents a new approach for identification of problem areas and design issues within distributed systems. The proposed framework combines traditional software metrics and introduces new architecture metrics. A reasonable combination of metrics is used to spot most critical components of a system and by this, predict post-release defects. The method is successfully evaluated on one industrial distributed system and showed its potential. However, further test data and evaluations are needed.