Francis Palma

UniDoSA: The Unified Specification and Detection of Service Antipatterns

2018 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Service-based Systems (SBSs) are developed on top of diverse Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies or architectural styles. Like any other complex systems, SBSs face both functional and non-functional changes at the design or implementation-level. Such changes …

Predicting Security Vulnerabilities using Source Code Metrics

2021

Large open-source systems generate and operate on a plethora of sensitive enterprise data. Thus, security threats or vulnerabilities must not be present in open-source systems and must be resolved as early as possible in the …

Investigating the Linguistic Design Quality of Public, Partner, and Private REST APIs

2022

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) define how Web services, middle-wares, frameworks, and libraries communicate with their clients. An API that conforms to REpresentational State Transfer (REST) design principles is known as REST API. At present, it …