Quality Aspects of Serverless Architecture: An Exploratory Study on Maintainability

Louis Racicot, Nicolas Cloutier, Julien Abt, Fabio Petrillo

2019

Abstract

Serverless architecture is emerging more and more popular as the tools are becoming cheap and more accessible. This way of designing an architecture presents many advantages especially for computing intensive and event-driven applications. Stateless functions are the foundation for these types of architectures, and it might cause an impact on the maintainability of the software. In this paper, we statically analyzed 25 open-source projects using serverless architecture to bring out metrics that applies to the different characteristics of software maintainability. We found out that some characteristics are positively impacted whilst some other seems to be negatively impacted. This paper thus provides findings on the current state of the projects’ maintainability using serverless architecture.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Racicot L., Cloutier N., Abt J. and Petrillo F. (2019). Quality Aspects of Serverless Architecture: An Exploratory Study on Maintainability.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-379-7, pages 60-70. DOI: 10.5220/0007842000600070

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft19,
author={Louis Racicot and Nicolas Cloutier and Julien Abt and Fabio Petrillo},
title={Quality Aspects of Serverless Architecture: An Exploratory Study on Maintainability},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2019},
pages={60-70},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007842000600070},
isbn={978-989-758-379-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Quality Aspects of Serverless Architecture: An Exploratory Study on Maintainability
SN - 978-989-758-379-7
AU - Racicot L.
AU - Cloutier N.
AU - Abt J.
AU - Petrillo F.
PY - 2019
SP - 60
EP - 70
DO - 10.5220/0007842000600070