Documentation of microservice-based software systems

Documenting dynamic software systems, such as those that follow a microservice-based architecture, is complex. This is mainly due to the need to take into account different stakeholders with different perspectives and the fact that the required information is distributed across different systems. The constantly changing architecture of these systems makes manual documentation of the system time-consuming and therefore also cost-intensive. For this reason, it is necessary to automate the documentation of dynamic systems. This thesis deals with the implementation of a dashboard that keeps the documentation up to date and in which it is possible to integrate information from different systems. At the beginning of the thesis, basic terms from the fields of software architecture and architecture documentation are discussed. Subsequently, requirements for the dashboard are defined, which were derived from existing literature and a survey. Finally, the implemented dashboard for the documentation of microservice-based software architectures is presented.

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After completing his training at HTL-Perg for EDVO, Peter Aichinger studied business informatics at Johannes Kepler University, graduating with honours. In addition to his enthusiasm for software systems, his greatest hobbies include football and agriculture (especially poultry farming).