An Approach and Toolset to Semi-automatically Recover and Visualise Micro-Service Architecture

This paper presents the MicroService Architecture Recovery (MiSAR) toolset for software engineers (software architects and developers) that need to semi-automatically obtain as-implemented architectural models of existing microservice-based systems. The MiSAR approach has been designed following Model Driven Architecture, and a set of components have been developed to support the semi-automatic support of MiSAR. The toolset first parses microservice-based systems and generates a Platform-Specific Model, which is an abstract representation of the system using the technology. Then, a model transformation engine automatically generates a Platform Independent Model which represents the as-implemented microservice architectural mode of a system. To support the visualization of as-implemented architectural models, the Graphical Model Generator component of the toolset can be used. The Graphical Model Generator allows the software engineer to obtain quantitative metrics of the microservice architectural model and UML diagrams representing different views of the architecture.