On Automatic Software Architecture Reconstruction of Microservice Applications

The adoption of Microservice Architecture (MSA) is rapidly becoming standard for modern software development. However, the added benefits of using a distributed architecture, including reliability and scalability, come with a cost in increasing the system’s complexity. One way developers attempt to mitigate the effects of an overly complicated system is through Systematic Architecture Reconstruction (SAR), which creates a high-level overview of the system concerns. This is typically done manually, which takes a great amount of effort from the developers. This paper proposes a method for automatically completing SAR of an MSA application through code analysis and demonstrating it on a case study on an existing microservice benchmark application.