用于恢复微服务架构的模型驱动架构方法：定义和评估MiSAR

IF 4.3 2区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107808

Nuha Alshuqayran , Nour Ali , Roger Evans

{"title":"用于恢复微服务架构的模型驱动架构方法：定义和评估MiSAR","authors":"Nuha Alshuqayran , Nour Ali , Roger Evans","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107808","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Microservice architecture is an architectural style in modern software systems, characterized by small, independent services called microservices. This architecture is ideal to facilitate rapid feature deployment. However, it presents a challenge for software engineers, who often lack a comprehensive architectural view due to the distributed nature and complex interdependencies of microservices.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This paper presents a Model Driven Architecture approach for MicroService Architecture Recovery called MiSAR. Building on previous work that defined a Platform Independent Metamodel, this study seeks to extend this metamodel, introduce a Platform Specific Metamodel, and establish mapping rules. The goal is to enable the semi-automatic recovery of architectural models for microservice systems.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An empirical study was conducted on nine microservice systems to define MiSAR’s artefacts and support semiautomatic recovery of architectural models. These artefacts are then implemented and used to semi-automatically recover the architectures of three systems. The effectiveness of MiSAR is evaluated based on metrics such as recall, precision, and F-measure, to assess the recovered models against actual architectures. We also compared the recovered architectural models with the ones documented by the developers.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The study identified key requirements for the Platform Independent Metamodel to support comprehensive microservice architecture recovery, leading to an incremental extension of the MiSAR Platform Independent Metamodel. Mapping rules were established to effectively transform Platform Specific Models into Platform Independent ones. Furthermore, MiSAR was successfully implemented to recover architecture models. An evaluation using three systems demonstrated that MiSAR could recover architectural models with a high degree of completeness and correctness when compared with the actual architecture.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The MiSAR artefacts, including the extended Platform Independent Metamodel and mapping rules, effectively produce expressive architectural models of microservice systems. Systems confirmed MiSAR’s ability to semi-automatically recover accurate architectural models, providing a holistic view often missing in current software engineering practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 107808"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"A model-driven architecture approach for recovering microservice architectures: Defining and evaluating MiSAR\",\"authors\":\"Nuha Alshuqayran , Nour Ali , Roger Evans\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107808\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Microservice architecture is an architectural style in modern software systems, characterized by small, independent services called microservices. This architecture is ideal to facilitate rapid feature deployment. However, it presents a challenge for software engineers, who often lack a comprehensive architectural view due to the distributed nature and complex interdependencies of microservices.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This paper presents a Model Driven Architecture approach for MicroService Architecture Recovery called MiSAR. Building on previous work that defined a Platform Independent Metamodel, this study seeks to extend this metamodel, introduce a Platform Specific Metamodel, and establish mapping rules. The goal is to enable the semi-automatic recovery of architectural models for microservice systems.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An empirical study was conducted on nine microservice systems to define MiSAR’s artefacts and support semiautomatic recovery of architectural models. These artefacts are then implemented and used to semi-automatically recover the architectures of three systems. The effectiveness of MiSAR is evaluated based on metrics such as recall, precision, and F-measure, to assess the recovered models against actual architectures. We also compared the recovered architectural models with the ones documented by the developers.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The study identified key requirements for the Platform Independent Metamodel to support comprehensive microservice architecture recovery, leading to an incremental extension of the MiSAR Platform Independent Metamodel. Mapping rules were established to effectively transform Platform Specific Models into Platform Independent ones. Furthermore, MiSAR was successfully implemented to recover architecture models. An evaluation using three systems demonstrated that MiSAR could recover architectural models with a high degree of completeness and correctness when compared with the actual architecture.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The MiSAR artefacts, including the extended Platform Independent Metamodel and mapping rules, effectively produce expressive architectural models of microservice systems. Systems confirmed MiSAR’s ability to semi-automatically recover accurate architectural models, providing a holistic view often missing in current software engineering practices.</div></div>\",\"PeriodicalId\":54983,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Information and Software Technology\",\"volume\":\"186 \",\"pages\":\"Article 107808\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":4.3000,\"publicationDate\":\"2025-06-03\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Information and Software Technology\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"94\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584925001478\",\"RegionNum\":2,\"RegionCategory\":\"计算机科学\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q2\",\"JCRName\":\"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Information and Software Technology","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584925001478","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

摘要

微服务架构是现代软件系统中的一种架构风格，其特点是称为微服务的小型独立服务。这种体系结构是促进快速特性部署的理想选择。然而，它给软件工程师带来了挑战，由于微服务的分布式特性和复杂的相互依赖性，他们往往缺乏全面的体系结构视图。本文提出了一种用于微服务架构恢复的模型驱动架构方法，称为MiSAR。在先前定义了平台无关元模型的工作的基础上，本研究试图扩展该元模型，引入平台特定元模型，并建立映射规则。目标是实现微服务系统架构模型的半自动恢复。方法对9个微服务系统进行了实证研究，以定义MiSAR的工件并支持架构模型的半自动恢复。然后实现并使用这些构件半自动地恢复三个系统的体系结构。MiSAR的有效性基于召回率、精度和F-measure等指标进行评估，以根据实际架构评估恢复的模型。我们还将恢复的体系结构模型与开发人员记录的模型进行了比较。该研究确定了支持全面微服务架构恢复的平台独立元模型的关键需求，从而导致MiSAR平台独立元模型的增量扩展。建立映射规则，有效地将平台特定模型转换为平台无关模型。此外，还成功地实现了MiSAR对体系结构模型的恢复。使用三个系统进行的评估表明，与实际体系结构相比，MiSAR可以恢复具有高度完整性和正确性的体系结构模型。MiSAR构件，包括扩展的平台无关元模型和映射规则，有效地生成了微服务系统的表达性架构模型。系统证实了MiSAR半自动恢复准确架构模型的能力，提供了当前软件工程实践中经常缺失的整体视图。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

查看原文本刊更多论文

A model-driven architecture approach for recovering microservice architectures: Defining and evaluating MiSAR

Context

Microservice architecture is an architectural style in modern software systems, characterized by small, independent services called microservices. This architecture is ideal to facilitate rapid feature deployment. However, it presents a challenge for software engineers, who often lack a comprehensive architectural view due to the distributed nature and complex interdependencies of microservices.

Objective

This paper presents a Model Driven Architecture approach for MicroService Architecture Recovery called MiSAR. Building on previous work that defined a Platform Independent Metamodel, this study seeks to extend this metamodel, introduce a Platform Specific Metamodel, and establish mapping rules. The goal is to enable the semi-automatic recovery of architectural models for microservice systems.

Methods

An empirical study was conducted on nine microservice systems to define MiSAR’s artefacts and support semiautomatic recovery of architectural models. These artefacts are then implemented and used to semi-automatically recover the architectures of three systems. The effectiveness of MiSAR is evaluated based on metrics such as recall, precision, and F-measure, to assess the recovered models against actual architectures. We also compared the recovered architectural models with the ones documented by the developers.

Results

The study identified key requirements for the Platform Independent Metamodel to support comprehensive microservice architecture recovery, leading to an incremental extension of the MiSAR Platform Independent Metamodel. Mapping rules were established to effectively transform Platform Specific Models into Platform Independent ones. Furthermore, MiSAR was successfully implemented to recover architecture models. An evaluation using three systems demonstrated that MiSAR could recover architectural models with a high degree of completeness and correctness when compared with the actual architecture.

Conclusion

The MiSAR artefacts, including the extended Platform Independent Metamodel and mapping rules, effectively produce expressive architectural models of microservice systems. Systems confirmed MiSAR’s ability to semi-automatically recover accurate architectural models, providing a holistic view often missing in current software engineering practices.

求助全文

通过发布文献求助，成功后即可免费获取论文全文。去求助

来源期刊

Information and Software Technology 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

CiteScore

9.10

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

9.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Information and Software Technology is the international archival journal focusing on research and experience that contributes to the improvement of software development practices. The journal''s scope includes methods and techniques to better engineer software and manage its development. Articles submitted for review should have a clear component of software engineering or address ways to improve the engineering and management of software development. Areas covered by the journal include: • Software management, quality and metrics, • Software processes, • Software architecture, modelling, specification, design and programming • Functional and non-functional software requirements • Software testing and verification & validation • Empirical studies of all aspects of engineering and managing software development Short Communications is a new section dedicated to short papers addressing new ideas, controversial opinions, "Negative" results and much more. Read the Guide for authors for more information. The journal encourages and welcomes submissions of systematic literature studies (reviews and maps) within the scope of the journal. Information and Software Technology is the premiere outlet for systematic literature studies in software engineering.