ICSR 2025
Sun 27 - Mon 28 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025

Cloud-native technologies enable the development of scalable, secure, and resilient applications in diverse cloud environments. However, deploying and configuring these technologies can be complex and error-prone. Existing reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions often suffer from inconsistent structures, limited customization, and potential vendor lock-in, hindering their effectiveness and usability. To mitigate this, this paper presents a framework for creating standardized and reusable IaC templates for deploying and configuring cloud-native infrastructure components. We conducted a needs analysis to identify key developer requirements and established ten design principles for creating reusable IaC templates. Additionally, we conducted a multivocal review of relevant literature to summarize best practices for implementing these principles. Leveraging these insights, we developed five reusable IaC templates and evaluated their effectiveness and usability against existing solutions. This proposed framework integrates conceptual guidance with practical implementations of reusable templates to simplify cloud-native infrastructure setup and enhance developer productivity.

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Sun 27 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Session 2: Software Product Line, Patterns and FrameworksICSR at 204
Chair(s): Gilles Perrouin Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS & University of Namur
11:00
30m
Paper
A Framework for Reusable Infrastructure as Code Templates in Cloud-Native Environments
ICSR
Haoran Wei University of Western Ontario, Nazim Madhavji Western University, John Steinbacher IBM
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11:30
30m
Paper
Large Language Model assisted Transformation of Software Variants into a Software Product Line
ICSR
Johannes Stümpfle University of Stuttgart, Devansh Atray University of Stuttgart, Nasser Jazdi University of Stuttgart, Michael Weyrich Universiy of Stuttgart
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12:00
30m
Paper
Exploiting Vision-Language Models in GUI Reuse
ICSR
Victoria Niu Walnut Hills High School, USA, Walaa Alshammari University of Cincinnati, USA, Naga Mamata Iluru University of Cincinnati, USA, Padmaja Vaishnavi Teeleti University of Cincinnati, USA, Nan Niu University of Cincinnati, Tanmay Bhowmik Mississippi State University, Jianzhang Zhang Hangzhou Normal University, China
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