Automated Microservice Pattern Instance Detection Using Infrastructure-as-Code Artifacts and Large Language Models

ArXi:2502.04188v1 Announce Type: cross Documenting software architecture is essential to preserve architecture knowledge, even though it is frequently costly. Architecture pattern instances, including microservice pattern instances, provide important structural software information. Practitioners should document this information to prevent knowledge vaporization. However, architecture patterns may not be detectable by analyzing source code artifacts, requiring the analysis of other types of artifacts. Moreover, many existing pattern detection instance approaches are complex to extend.