Multi-component Cloud-Edge applications, which rely on the Internet of Things, call for suitable and sustainable management techniques. On one hand, they have to guarantee their hardware and Quality of Service requirements over large-scale Cloud-...

Security smells, i.e., possible symptoms of bad security decisions, can occur in microservice-based applications, potentially resulting in violations of key security properties. The decision of whether or not to refactor a service to mitigate the ...

Massimiliano Di Penta received the 2024 SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award for outstanding service to the software engineering community, including serving as program co-chair for all premier software engineering conferences and several other events. ...

Securing microservice applications is crucial. Security smells denote symptoms of bad –often unintentional– design decisions, which may result in violating security properties, and that can be resolved via refactoring. Stakeholders take into account the ...

This work-in-progress paper introduces the project "Network for Energy Sustainable Transition" (NEST), whose overall objective is to conceive technologies facilitating the conversion and utilisation of renewable sources, ensuring sustainability across ...

This position paper introduces FREEDA, a research project aimed at supporting DevOps engineers in achieving failure-resilient and sustainable deployments of microservice-based applications over the Cloud-IoT computing continuum. After providing the ...

The manual deployment of applications distributed across the cloud, fog, and edge is error-prone and complex. TOSCA is a standard for modeling the deployment of cloud applications in a vendor-neutral and technology-independent manner that is also ...

Microservices are pervading enterprise IT, and securing microservices hence became crucial. KubeHound is an open-source tool devised for this purpose, as it enables detecting instances of so-called security smells in microservice applications ...

Gail Murphy received the 2023 SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for pioneering contributions to recommenders for software engineering and program comprehension that have impacted both theory and practice. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from ...

Various tools have been developed to reconstruct the microservice system architecture. Some of the main reasons to build yet another architectural reconstruction tool are the lack of features to satisfy the current needs or the fact that ...

Modern applications integrate heterogeneous microservices that can fail due to different reasons. Determining the root causes of microservices' failures and explaining how failures propagate across microservices are hence two crucial ...

• Explaining why microservices failed is crucial nowadays.
• We introduce yRCA, an ...

John Grundy received the 2023 SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award for continued outstanding service to the software engineering community, including the repeated successful organization of flagship conferences, and leadership in the Australasian ...

Chunyang Chen received the 2023 SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award for outstanding contributions to the study of intelligent software development automation including automated mobile application development, software testing, migration, and ...

Designing applications adhering to the key design principles of microservice-based architectures (MSAs) enables fully exploiting the potentials of cloud computing platforms. A specification of an application’s MSA can help determining whether it ...$$$$

Securing microservices is crucial, as many IT companies are delivering their businesses through microservices. If security “smells” affect microservice-based applications, they can possibly suffer from security ...

• Multivocal review capturing the state of the art/practice in securing microservices.

Miryung Kim received the 2022 SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award for outstanding achievements in undergraduate and graduate mentoring with emphasis on research excellence in software engineering, diversity, and inclusion. She received a Ph.D. in ...

Software Engineering (SE) has evolved over many decades and has led to many proven and well-established methods and tools that support the efficient development of software and IT systems in general. Although software development had often been ...

The microservice architectural style is widespread in enterprise IT, making the securing of microservices a crucial issue. Many bad practices in securing microservices have been identified by researchers and practitioners, along with security good ...

Securing microservice-based applications is crucial, as many IT companies are delivering their businesses through microservices. Security smells, i.e. possible symptoms of (often unintentional) bad design decisions, can occur in microservice-based ...