Software Quality Assurance for Microservice Development Operations Engineering

Informations projet

uDEVOPS

N° de convention de subvention: 871342

DOI

10.3030/871342

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 15 Octobre 2019

Date de début 1 Mars 2020

Date de fin 31 Mai 2025

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 749 800,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 749 800,00

Coordonné par

CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER L'INFORMATICA
Italy

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Livrables

Documents, reports (5)

Analysis and characterization of Microservice Development Operations Engineering and Modelling techniques and formalisms for μDevOps

It reports the output of T21 T22 and T23We foresee an internal deliverable D21a at month 24 with all what is needed from the modelling and DSML side to complete the other Deliverable of WP2 D22 Then since the modelling techniques and the formalism the DSML defined in this WP2 is also linked to all the other WPs the content will be incrementally updated up to month 45 The final delivery date is at month450

Testing process definition for μDevOps Engineering and Validation of μDevOps testing and platform

It is the output of T5.1, T5.2, T5.4

Business risk assessment techniques

It reports the output of T41T42 T43

Dissemination & Outreach Activities plan

The first version of this deliverable at month 21 and then is updated every 6 months. The final version is delivered at month 63. It is the output of T6.1.

Sampling-based Testing Techniques Design and Algorithms for QoS Testing

It reports about T31 T32 T33 T34

Publications

Conference proceedings (21)

A Benchmark for DDoS Attacks Detection in Microservice Architectures

Auteurs: M. Ficco, P. Fusco, A. Guerriero, R. Pietrantuono, M. Russo, F. Palmieri, S. Russo
Publié dans: 2025 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2025, Page(s) 345-349
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icnc64010.2025.10994136

Identifying Performance Issues in Microservice Architectures through Causal Reasoning

Auteurs: Giamattei, Luca and Guerriero, Antonio and Malavolta, Ivano and Mascia, Cristian and Pietrantuono, Roberto and Russo, Stefano
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2024), 2024
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3644032.3644460

Evaluating the UX of a Microservice Web App: CyberRanges in the μDevOps Project

Auteurs: L. de-Marcos, J.M. Gutiérrez-Martínez, A. Domínguez-Díaz, S. Caro-Álvaro, D. Rodríguez
Publié dans: The 33rd Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, 2022
Éditeur: Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems

Native vs Web Apps: Comparing the Energy Consumption and Performance of Android Apps and their Web Counterparts

Auteurs: Ruben Horn, Abdellah Lahnaoui, Edgardo Reinoso, Sicheng Peng, Vadim Isakov, Tanjina Islam, Ivano Malavolta
Publié dans: 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft), 2023
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1109/mobilsoft59058.2023.00013

An empirical study on the Performance and Energy Consumption of AI Containerization Strategies for Computer-Vision Tasks on the Edge

Auteurs: Hampau, Raluca Maria, Maurits Kaptein, Robin Van Emden, Thomas Rost, and Ivano Malavolta
Publié dans: International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2022, 2022, Page(s) 50-59
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3530019.3530025

Iterative Assessment and Improvement of DNN Operational Accuracy

Auteurs: Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, and Stefano Russo
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, 2023
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icse-nier58687.2023.00014

An Evolutionary Strategy for Automatic Hypotheses Generation inspired by Abductive Reasoning

Auteurs: Roberto Pietrantuono
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2023, Page(s) 235-238, ISBN 9798400701207
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3583133.3590568

Variability Features: Extending Sustainability Decision Maps via an Industrial Case Study

Auteurs: M. Funke, P. Lago and R. Verdecchia
Publié dans: 2023 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 2023
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icsa-c57050.2023.00024

Adaptive Probabilistic Operational Testing for Large Language Models Evaluation

Auteurs: Ali Asgari, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: Proceedings of The 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2025), 2025
Éditeur: ACM/IEEE

Microservices Performance Testing with Causality-enhanced Large Language Models

Auteurs: Cristian Mascia, Antonio Guerriero, Luca Giamattei, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: 2025 IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (Forge), 2025, Page(s) 136-140
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/forge66646.2025.00022

DeepSample: DNN sampling-based testing for operational accuracy assessment

Auteurs: Guerriero, Antonio and Pietrantuono, Roberto and Russo, Stefano
Publié dans: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering}, 2024
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3597503.3639584

Microservices integrated performance and reliability testing

Auteurs: Matteo Camilli, Antonio Guerriero, Andrea Janes, Barbara Russo, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test, 2022, Page(s) 29-39
Éditeur: ACM/IEEE
DOI: 10.1145/3524481.3527233

The Impact of Knowledge Distillation on the Energy Consumption and Runtime Efficiency of NLP Models

Auteurs: Yuan, Ye and Zhang, Jingzhi and Zhang, Zongyao and Chen, Kaiwei and Shi, Jiacheng and Stoico, Vincenzo and Malavolta, Ivano
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI (CAIN), 2024
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3644815.3644966

Automated Grey-box Testing of Microservice Architectures

Auteurs: Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, and Stefano Russo
Publié dans: The 22nd IEEE Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, 2022, 2022
Éditeur: IEEE

An Empirical Evaluation of the Energy and Performance Overhead of Monitoring Tools on Docker-Based Systems

Auteurs: Dinga, M., Malavolta, I., Giamattei, L., Guerriero, A., Pietrantuono, R.
Publié dans: Monti, F., Rinderle-Ma, S., Ruiz Cortés, A., Zheng, Z., Mecella, M. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Numéro vol 14419, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-48420-9
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48421-6_13

Towards Log-driven Testing through Transformers: A Preliminary Study

Auteurs: Raffaele Della Corte, Roberto Pietrantuono
Publié dans: 2024 19th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), 2024, Page(s) 103-106
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/edcc61798.2024.00030

Assessing Black-box Test Case Generation Techniques for Microservices

Auteurs: L. Giamattei, A. Guerriero, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
Publié dans: In: Vallecillo, A., Visser, J., Pérez-Castillo, R. (eds) Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Numéro vol 1621, 2022
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14179-9_4

Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis of Microservices Energy Consumption

Auteurs: Maximilian Stefan Floroiu, Stefano Russo, Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Ivano Malavolta, Roberto Pietrantuono
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2024, Page(s) 590-600
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icws62655.2024.00079

An Empirical Study on Software Aging of Long-Running Object Detection Algorithms

Auteurs: Roberto Pietrantuono, Domenico Cotroneo, Ermeson Andrade, Fumio Machida
Publié dans: The 22nd IEEE Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, 2022, 2022
Éditeur: IEEE

On the Energy Consumption and Performance of WebAssembly Binaries across Programming Languages and Runtimes in IoT

Auteurs: Wagner Linus, Mayer Maximilian, Marino,rea, Soldani Nezhad Alireza, Zwaan Hugo, Malavolta Ivano
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2023
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3593434.3593454

Reasoning-Based Software Testing

Auteurs: Giamattei, Luca; Pietrantuono, Roberto; Russo, Stefano
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, 2023
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icse-nier58687.2023.00018

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Monitoring tools for DevOps and microservices: A systematic grey literature review

Auteurs: L. Giamattei, A. Guerriero, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo, I. Malavolta, T. Islam, M. Dînga, A. Koziolek, S. Singh, M. Armbruster, J.M. Gutierrez-Martinez, S. Caro-Alvaro, D. Rodriguez, S. Weber, J. Henss, E. Fernandez Vogelin, F. Simon Panojo
Publié dans: Journal of Systems and Software, Numéro Volume 208, 2024, Page(s) 111906, ISSN 0164-1212
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.111906

Development and evaluation of a reference measurement model for assessing the resource and energy efficiency of software products and components—Green Software Measurement Model (GSMM)

Auteurs: Achim Guldner, Rabea Bender, Coral Calero, Giovanni S. Fernando, Markus Funke, Jens Gröger, Lorenz M. Hilty, Julian Hörnschemeyer, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann, Dennis Junger, Tom Kennes, Sandro Kreten, Patricia Lago, Franziska Mai, Ivano Malavolta, Julien Murach, Kira Obergöker, Benno Schmidt, Arne Tarara, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Sebastian Weber, Max Westing, Volker Wohlgemuth, Stefan Naumann
Publié dans: Future Generation Computer Systems, Numéro 155, 2024, Page(s) 402-418, ISSN 0167-739X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.01.033

Assessing operational accuracy of CNN-based image classifiers using an oracle surrogate

Auteurs: Antonio Guerriero, Michael R. Lyu, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: Intelligent Systems with Applications, Numéro Vol 17, 2023, Page(s) 200172, ISSN 2667-3053
Éditeur: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200172

Micro2vec: Anomaly detection in microservices systems by mining numeric representations of computer logs

Auteurs: Marcello Cinque, Raffaele Della Corte, Antonio Pecchia
Publié dans: Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Numéro 10848045, 2022, Page(s) 103515, ISSN 1084-8045
Éditeur: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2022.103515

Reliability assessment of service-based software under operational profile uncertainty

Auteurs: Roberto Pietrantuono, Peter Popov, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020, ISSN 0951-8320
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2020.107193

Causality-driven Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems

Auteurs: Giamattei, Luca and Guerriero, Antonio and Pietrantuono, Roberto and Russo, Stefano
Publié dans: ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., Numéro Vol 33, n. 3, 2024, Page(s) 35, ISSN 1049-331X
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3635709

Reinforcement learning for online testing of autonomous driving systems: a replication and extension study

Auteurs: Luca Giamattei, Matteo Biagiola, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo, Paolo Tonella
Publié dans: Empirical Software Engineering, Numéro 30, 2025, ISSN 1382-3256
Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-024-10562-5

Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures

Auteurs: Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: Journal of Systems and Software, Numéro 207, 2024, Page(s) 111857, ISSN 0164-1212
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.111857

Automatic Generation of Plausible Co-Occurring Causes for Effects Explanation or Prediction

Auteurs: Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Numéro 16, 2025, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 2157-6904
Éditeur: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3725855

JavaScript Dead Code Identification, Elimination, and Empirical Assessment

Auteurs: Malavolta Ivano, Nirghin Kishan, Scoccia Gian Luca, Romano Simone, Lombardi Salvatore, Scanniello Giuseppe, Lago Patricia
Publié dans: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023, ISSN 0098-5589
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2023.3267848

Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review

Auteurs: Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Publié dans: Information and Software Technology, Numéro 178, 2024, Page(s) 107599, ISSN 0950-5849
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107599

Book chapters (1)

Ten Years of Teaching Empirical Software Engineering in the Context of Energy-Efficient Software

Auteurs: Ivano Malavolta, Vincenzo Stoico, Patricia Lago
Publié dans: Handbook on Teaching Empirical Software Engineering, Numéro Ten Years of Teaching Empirical Software Engineering in the context of Energy-efficient Software, 2024, Page(s) 209-253
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71769-7_8