On Different Search Methods for Systematic Literature Reviews and Maps

Brings, Jennifer; Daun, Marian; Kempe, Markus; Weyer, Thorsten

doi:10.1145/3210459.3210463

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“…The specified RQs require us to identify and select MSAbased OSS projects, representing a repository of developer discussions and knowledge, to extract the issues, their causes, and solutions. This means that the RQs guided the development of search strings based on the recommendations and steps from [22] for string composition to retrieve developer discussions on microservices projects deployed on GitHub [23]. We formulated the search string using the format [keyword-1 [OR logic] keyword-2 .…”

Section: Step a -Identify And Select Msa-based Oss Projectsmentioning

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Understanding the Issues, Their Causes and Solutions in Microservices Systems: An Empirical Study

Waseem¹,

Peng²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2023

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Many small to large organizations have adopted the Microservices Architecture (MSA) style to develop and deliver their core businesses. Despite the popularity of MSA in the software industry, there is a limited evidence-based and thorough understanding of the types of issues (e.g., errors, faults, failures, and bugs) that microservices system developers experience, the causes of the issues, and the solutions as potential fixing strategies to address the issues. To ameliorate this gap, we conducted a mixed-methods empirical study that collected data from 2,641 issues from the issue tracking systems of 15 open-source microservices systems on GitHub, 15 interviews, and an online survey completed by 150 practitioners from 42 countries across 6 continents. Our analysis led to comprehensive taxonomies for the issues, causes, and solutions. The findings of this study inform that Technical Debt, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Exception Handling, Service Execution and Communication, and Security are the most dominant issues in microservices systems. Furthermore, General Programming Errors, Missing Features and Artifacts, and Invalid Configuration and Communication are the main causes behind the issues. Finally, we found 177 types of solutions that can be applied to fix the identified issues. Based on our study results, we formulated future research directions that could help researchers and practitioners to engineer emergent and next-generation microservices systems.

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Section: Step a -Identify And Select Msa-based Oss Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Issues, Their Causes and Solutions in Microservices Systems: An Empirical Study

Waseem¹,

Peng²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Terefore, the authors resorted to other search techniques, mainly manual search, to strive for full coverage of the research area. We also applied (1) backward and (2) forward snowballing, which refers to using the list of references or citations of the primary studies to identify additional candidate studies [63]. Te guidelines and processes elaborated in [61] were shadowed to optimize the search results.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review on Service Composition for People with Disabilities: Taxonomies, Solutions, and Open Research Challenges

Namoun

Tufail

Nawaz

et al. 2023

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Integrating smart heterogeneous objects, IoT devices, data sources, and software services to produce new business processes and functionalities continues to attract considerable attention from the research community due to its unraveled advantages, including reusability, adaptation, distribution, and pervasiveness. However, the exploitation of service-oriented computing technologies (e.g., SOC, SOA, and microservice architectures) by people with special needs is underexplored and often overlooked. Furthermore, the existing challenges in this area are yet to be identified clearly. This research study presents a rigorous literature survey of the recent advances in service-oriented composition approaches and solutions for disabled people, their domains of application, and the major challenges, covering studies published between January 2010 and October 2022. To this end, we applied the systematic literature review (SLR) methodology to retrieve and collate only the articles presenting and discussing service composition solutions tailored to produce digitally accessible services for consumption by people who suffer from an impairment or loss of some physical or mental functions. We searched six renowned bibliographic databases, particularly IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, Springer Link, ACM Library, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar, to synthesize a final pool of 38 related articles. Our survey contributes a comprehensive taxonomy of service composition solutions, techniques, and practices that are utilized to create assistive technologies and services. The seven-facet taxonomy helps researchers and practitioners to quickly understand and analyze the fundamental conceptualizations and characteristics of accessible service composition for people with disabilities. Key findings showed that services are fused to assist disabled persons to carry out their daily activities, mainly in smart homes and ambient intelligent environments. Despite the emergence of immersive technologies (e.g., wearable computing), user-service interactions are enabled primarily through tactile and speech modalities. Service descriptions mainly incorporate functional features (e.g., performance, latency, and cost) of service quality, largely ignoring accessibility features. Moreover, the outstanding research problems revolve around (1) the unavailability of assistive services datasets, (2) the underspecification of accessibility aspects of disabilities, (3) the weak adoption of accessible and universal design practices, (4) the abstraction of service composition approaches, and (5) the rare experimental testing of composition approaches with disabled users. We conclude our survey with a set of guidelines to realize effective assistive service composition in IoT and cloud environments. Researchers and practitioners are advised to create assistive services that support the social relationships of disabled users and model their accessibility needs as part of the quality of service (QoS). Moreover, they should exploit AI/ML models to address the evolving requirements of disabled users in their unique environments. Furthermore, weaknesses of service composition solutions and research challenges are exposed as notable opportunities for future research.

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“…The selected search method of an SLR may impact the found results considerably: manual search, database search, and snowball search may result in paper sets with significant disparities [21]. In order to avoid limiting the scope of investigation to selected venues (like in manual search), or getting "stuck" in local cliques of mutually referencing papers (like in snowball searches), we used a database search to cover the overall spectrum of possible approaches.…”

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A systematic literature review of requirements engineering education

et al. 2022

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Requirements engineering (RE) has established itself as a core software engineering discipline. It is well acknowledged that good RE leads to higher quality software and considerably reduces the risk of failure or budget-overspending of software development projects. It is of vital importance to train future software engineers in RE and educate future requirements engineers to adequately manage requirements in various projects. To this date, there exists no central concept of what RE education shall comprise. To lay a foundation, we report on a systematic literature review of the field and provide a systematic map describing the current state of RE education. Doing so allows us to describe how the educational landscape has changed over the last decade. Results show that only a few established author collaborations exist and that RE education research is predominantly published in venues other than the top RE research venues (i.e., in venues other than the RE conference and journal). Key trends in RE instruction of the past decade include involvement of real or realistic stakeholders, teaching predominantly elicitation as an RE activity, and increasing student factors such as motivation or communication skills. Finally, we discuss open opportunities in RE education, such as training for security requirements and supply chain risk management, as well as developing a pedagogical foundation grounded in evidence of effective instructional approaches.

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On Different Search Methods for Systematic Literature Reviews and Maps

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding the Issues, Their Causes and Solutions in Microservices Systems: An Empirical Study

Understanding the Issues, Their Causes and Solutions in Microservices Systems: An Empirical Study

A Systematic Literature Review on Service Composition for People with Disabilities: Taxonomies, Solutions, and Open Research Challenges

A systematic literature review of requirements engineering education

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