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Towards Semantic Detection of Smells in Cloud Infrastructure Code

Software Engineering 2020-07-07 v1

Abstract

Automated deployment and management of Cloud applications relies on descriptions of their deployment topologies, often referred to as Infrastructure Code. As the complexity of applications and their deployment models increases, developers inadvertently introduce software smells to such code specifications, for instance, violations of good coding practices, modular structure, and more. This paper presents a knowledge-driven approach enabling developers to identify the aforementioned smells in deployment descriptions. We detect smells with SPARQL-based rules over pattern-based OWL 2 knowledge graphs capturing deployment models. We show the feasibility of our approach with a prototype and three case studies.

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@article{arxiv.2007.02135,
  title  = {Towards Semantic Detection of Smells in Cloud Infrastructure Code},
  author = {Indika Kumara and Zoe Vasileiou and Georgios Meditskos and Damian A. Tamburri and Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel and Anastasios Karakostas and Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02135},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 6 figures. The 10 th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2020)

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