2025

F. Ponce, R. Verdecchia, B. Miranda, J. Soldani. 2025. Microservices testing: A systematic literature review. Information and Software Technology, Volume 188, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107870

S. Gazza, R- Amadini, A. Brogi, A. D’Iapico, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, F. Ponce, J. Soldani, M. Vitali, and G. Zavattaro. 2025. A Constraint-Based Approach to Optimise QoS- and Energy-Aware Cloud-Edge Application Deployments. ACM Trans. Internet Technol. (July 2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3757061

S. Moreschini, S. Pour, I. Lanese, D. Balouek, J. Bogner, X. Li, F. Pecorelli, J. Soldani, E. Truyen, D. Taibi. AI Techniques in the Microservices Life-Cycle: a Systematic Mapping StudyComputing 107, 100 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-025-01432-z

O. Danushi, S. Forti, and J. Soldani. 2025. Carbon-Efficient Software Design and Development: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Comput. Surv. 57, 10, Article 267 (October 2025), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3728638

M. Stötzner, N. Krieger, S. Speth, M. Weller, S. Becker, B. Weder, J. Soldani, V. Morlock. A Method for the Quality-Aware Automated Selection of Deployment Technologies. Software: Practice and Experience (2025): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.70012

Forti, S., Soldani, J., Brogi, A. (2025). Carbon-Aware Software Services. 11th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2025). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84617-5_6

J. Soldani, S. Forti, L. Roveroni, A. Brogi. (2025). Explaining Microservices’ Cascading Failures from their Logs. Software: Practice & Experience, vol. 55, issue 5, pp. 809-828, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3400

Ponce, F., Forti, S., Soldani, J., Brogi, A. (2025). Enhancing Failure Resilience of Cloud-Edge Microservices: The FREEDA Approach. In: Pahl, C., Janes, A., Cerny, T., Lenarduzzi, V., Esposito, M. (eds) Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84617-5_9

2024

F. Ponce, A. Malnati, R. Negro, F. Arcelli Fontana, H. Astudillo, A. Brogi, J. Soldani. SST: A Tool to Support the Triage of Security Smells in Microservice Applications. SN COMPUT. SCI. 5, 1014 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-03372-5

R. Amadini, S. Gazza, J. Soldani, M. Vitali, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, F. Ponce, G. Zavattaro. Pick a Flavour: Towards Sustainable Deployment of Cloud-Edge Applications. In: Bowles, J., Søndergaard, H. (eds) Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation. LOPSTR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14919. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71294-4_7

F. Ponce, J. Soldani, H. Astudillo and A. Brogi. Towards Teamwise Informed Decisions On Microservice Security Smells. In: Galster, M., Scandurra, P., Mikkonen, T., Oliveira Antonino, P., Nakagawa, E.Y., Navarro, E. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14889. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70797-1_23

M. Vitali, J. Soldani, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, G. Zavattaro, P. Plebani and F. Ponce. FREEDA: Failure-resilient, energy-aware, and explainable deployment of microservice-based applications over Cloud-IoT infrastructures. In CAiSE Research Projects Exhibition (pp. 69-75). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3692/paper9.pdf

Bakhtin, A., Li, X., Soldani, J., Brogi, A., Cerny, T., Taibi, D. (2024). Tools Reconstructing Microservice Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study. In: Tekinerdoğan, B., Spalazzese, R., Sözer, H., Bonfanti, S., Weyns, D. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2023 Tracks, Workshops, and Doctoral Symposium. ECSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14590. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66326-0_1

Agostini, M.; Soldani, J. and Brogi, A. (2024). Detecting and Resolving Bad Organisational Smells for Microservices. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies – ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-706-1; ISSN 2184-2833, SciTePress, pages 67-78. https://doi.org/10.5220/0012851200003753

F. Ponce, J. Soldani, C. Taramasco, H. Astudillo and A. Brogi. Triaging Microservice Security Smells, with TriSS. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 698–706. https://doi.org/10.1145/3661167.3661282

J. Soldani, R. Amadini, A. Brogi, S. Forti, S. Giallorenzo, P. Plebani, M. Vitali and G. Zavattaro. Towards Sustainable Deployment of Microservices over the Cloud-IoT Continuum, with FREEDA. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Flexible Resource and Application Management on the Edge (FRAME ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3659994.3660311

Wizenty, P.; Ponce, F.; Rademacher, F.; Soldani, J.; Astudillo, H.; Brogi, A. and Sachweh, S. (2024). Model-Driven End-to-End Resolution of Security Smells in Microservice Architectures. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science – CLOSER; ISBN 978-989-758-701-6; ISSN 2184-5042, SciTePress, pages 204-215. https://doi.org/10.5220/0012671700003711

2023

F. Ponce, J. Soldani, C. Taramasco, H. Astudillo and A. Brogi. (2023). Beyond Security: Understanding the Multiple Impacts of Security Smells for MicroservicesCLEI Electronic Journal27(2), 6-1. https://doi.org/10.19153/cleiej.27.2.6

A. Bakhtin, X. Li, J. Soldani, A. Brogi, T. Cerny, D. Taibi. Tools reconstructing microservice architecture: A systematic mapping study. AMP @ ECSA 2023 Tracks, Workshops, and Doctoral Symposium. ECSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14590. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66326-0_1

T. Howard-Grubb, J. Soldani, G. Dell’Immagine, F. Arcelli Fontana, A. Brogi. Smelling homemade crypto code in microservices, with KubeHound. In: Monti, F., et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2023 Workshops. ICSOC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14518. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0989-2_27