Antonio Gamez-Diaz, Pablo Fernandez, Cesare Pautasso, Ana Ivanchikj, Antonio Ruiz-Cortes
16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2018), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
November 2018
Abstract
As software architecture design is evolving to microservice paradigms, RESTful APIs become the building blocks of applications. In such a scenario, a growing market of APIs is proliferating and developers face the challenges to take advantage of this reality. For an example, third-party APIs typically define different usage limitations depending on the purchased Service Level Agreement (SLA) and, consequently, do- ing a manual limitation analysis of external APIs and their impact in a microservice architecture is a complex and tedious task. In this demonstration paper, we present ELeCTRA, a tool to automate the analysis of induced limitations in an API, derived from its usage of external APIs with limitations. Specifically, this tools takes the structural, conversational and SLA specifications of the API, generates a visual dependency graph and translates the problem into a constraint satisfaction optimization problem (CSOP) to obtain the optimal usage limitations.
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- Antonio Gamez-Diaz, Pablo Fernandez, Cesare Pautasso, Ana Ivanchikj, Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, ELeCTRA: induced usage limitations calculation in RESTful APIs, Demo at the 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2018), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, November 2018