On the Definition of Microservice Bad Smells

• Published in: IEEE software Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 56 - 62
• Main Authors: Taibi, Davide, Lenarduzzi, Valentina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2018; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: anti-pattern; antipattern; architectural smell; bad smell; Cloud computing; code smell; Interviews; Logic gates; Maintainability; microservice; Product development; Researchers; Service computing; Software architecture; Software development; Software engineering

Code smells and architectural smells (also called bad smells) are symptoms of poor design that can hinder code understandability and decrease maintainability. Several bad smells have been defined in the literature for both generic architectures and specific architectures. However, cloud-native appli...