Datalog-Based Language-Agnostic Change Impact Analysis for Microservices

• Published in: Proceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 78 - 89
• Main Authors: Shi, Qingkai, Xie, Xiaoheng, Fu, Xianjin, Di, Peng, Li, Huawei, Zhou, Ang, Fan, Gang
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 26.04.2025
• Subjects: change impact analysis; Codes; Companies; Computer languages; Datalog-based analysis; Industries; Microscopy; Microservice architectures; microservices; Multilingual; Software; Software engineering; Testing

The shift-left principle in the industry requires us to test a software application as early as possible. In particular, when code changes in a microservice application are committed to the code repository, we have to efficiently identify all public microservice interfaces affected by the changes so...