Facing the Giant

Ayas, Hamdy Michael; Leitner, Philipp; Hebig, Regina

doi:10.1145/3475716.3475792

Cited by 13 publications

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“…The existence of another three items, which are {constant data comparison}, {data collection}, and {data analysis}, was also validated. There was only one article [45] in which the {constant data comparison} code was not found. [45] {A GT of decision-making in microservices migrations} 3 decision-making processes 3 types of migrations Lubin (2021) [62] {Use of GT to study statically typed functional programmers author code} 4 ways programmers approach problem domain modeling 4 observations applied in the statically-typed functional programming process lenge of {constant comparison} may be the diversity of data sources or dimensions in finding the core category in each paper.…”

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A New Way of Cataloging Research through Grounded Theory

Navas

Yagüe

2023

Applied Sciences

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Grounded theory (GT) has been extensively used in social studies through surveys and interviews. However, its application in software development has not been appropriately categorized, limiting its in-depth study in this field. Additionally, the qualitative analysis provided by GT is in increasing demand in software engineering, presenting a significant opportunity to further investigate this topic. This article discusses the identification and analysis of key GT elements beyond traditional data sources, such as research results, engineering artifacts, and written documents, and introduces the role of basic coding, master core category, and the theory emerging, thus showing a way to present the results of GT studies in software development. The study provides valuable insights for researchers and practitioners interested in applying GT in software development. The article also explores the crucial role of constant comparison until saturation and the challenges it presents. Additionally, the integration of Glaserian grounded theory (GGT) with systematic mapping study (SMS) is examined, resulting in a novel approach called Glaserian systematic mapping study (GSMS), which defines saturation through three equations, providing a set of components that satisfactorily categorize GT in software development. This article discusses the identification and analysis of key grounded theory (GT) elements beyond traditional data sources in the context of software development.

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A New Way of Cataloging Research through Grounded Theory

Navas

Yagüe

2023

Applied Sciences

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“…The study in [7] examines existing literature and provides guidance models for microservices discovery and fault tolerance. Regarding migrating microservices systems, Ayas et al [1] identified three decision-making processes in microservices migrations consisting of 22 decision points and their alternative options by interviewing 19 participants. Data management aspects of microservice systems are reported in [6].…”

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“…Decision models are a structured way of exploring the problem and solution space to achieve the design goal(s) [14]. In this work, the proposed models have been (1) developed by reviewing the scientific and grey literature and (2) evaluated through semi-structured interviews with microservices practitioners, which sought the practitioners' perspective on the familiarity, understandability, completeness, and usefulness of the models. The decision model for decomposing applications into microservices was proposed in our previous work [32].…”

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“…The core contributions of this research are: (1) four decision models that exploit patterns and strategies to accommodate quality attributes (architecturally significant requirements) for microservices systems, and (2) empirical evaluations of the decision models (accommodating practitioners perspective). Paper organization: Section 2 describes the research methodology; Section 3 presents the details of the decision models; Section 4 describes the evaluation of the decision models; Section 5 discusses the threats to validity; Section 6 presents related work; Section 7 concludes this work with future research directions.…”

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Decision Models for Selecting Patterns and Strategies in Microservices Systems and their Evaluation by Practitioners

Waseem

Liang

Ahmad³

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

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Researchers and practitioners have recently proposed many Microservices Architecture (MSA) patterns and strategies covering various aspects of microservices system life cycle, such as service design and security. However, selecting and implementing these patterns and strategies can entail various challenges for microservices practitioners. To this end, this study proposes decision models for selecting patterns and strategies covering four MSA design areas: application decomposition into microservices, microservices security, microservices communication, and service discovery. We used peer-reviewed and grey literature to identify the patterns, strategies, and quality attributes for creating these decision models. To evaluate the familiarity, understandability, completeness, and usefulness of the decision models, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 microservices practitioners from 12 countries across five continents. Our evaluation results show that the practitioners found the decision models as an effective guide to select microservices patterns and strategies. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Designing software; • General and reference → Empirical studies.

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