ECSA 2024
Tue 3 - Fri 6 September 2024 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Security smells, i.e., possible symptoms of bad design decisions, can occur in microservice-based applications, resulting in violations of key security properties and of design soundness. The decision to refactor a service to mitigate the potential effects of security smells is complex, considering the distributed responsibility of services across DevOps teams and the possible impact on their development schedules. In this work-in-progress paper, we propose a DevOps team-centric view that provides insights on the effects of refactorings on quality attributes, the urgency and effort of a refactoring, and its implications for other teams. This approach aims to support DevOps teams in making decisions in the context of microservice-based applications security and to better schedule the refactorings that mitigate the potential effects of microservice security smell instances.

Wed 4 Sep

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11:00 - 12:35
Technical Session 1: Architecture decision makingResearch Papers at Hollenfels
Chair(s): Jasmin Jahic University of Cambridge, UK
11:00
15m
Short-paper
Towards Teamwise Informed Decisions On Microservice Security SmellsShort Paper
Research Papers
Francisco Ponce , Jacopo Soldani University of Pisa, Italy, Hernan Astudillo Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, Antonio Brogi Università di Pisa
11:15
15m
Short-paper
Automated Quality Concerns Extraction from User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for Early Architectural DecisionsShort Paper
Research Papers
Khubaib Amjad Alam National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Hira Asif National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Irum Inayat Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Saif-Ur-Rehman Khan Department of Computing, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (STMU)
11:30
25m
Full-paper
Exploring Architectural Design Decisions in Mailing Lists and their Traceability to Issue TrackersBest Paper Award CandidateArtifact Award CandidateResearch Paper
Research Papers
Mohamed Soliman Paderborn University
11:55
25m
Full-paper
Introducing Architecture Decision Records in Practice: An Action Research StudyExperience Report
Research Papers
Bardha Ahmeti Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Maja Linder Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Raffaela Groner Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Rebekka Wohlrab Chalmers University of Technology
12:20
15m
Short-paper
Helping architects to make quality design decisions using LLM-based assistantsShort Paper
Research Papers
Andres Diaz Pace UNICEN University, Antonela Tommasel ISISTAN Research Institute, CONICET-UNCPBA, Rafael Capilla Universidad Rey Juan Carlos