Software Engineering for Serverless Computing

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2207.13263
• Publication Date: 2022-01-01
• Authors: Jinfeng Wen; Zhenpeng Chen; Xuanzhe Liu
• Keywords: Software Engineering (cs.SE); FOS: Computer and information sciences; Computer Science - Software Engineering; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud paradigm that has been applied to various domains, including machine learning, scientific computing, video processing, etc. To develop serverless computing-based software applications (a.k.a., applications), developers follow the new cloud-based architecture, where they event-driven without need for complex and error-prone server management. The great demand developing poses unique challenges developers. However, Software Engineering (SE) not yet wholeheartedly tackled these challenges. In this paper, we outline a vision how SE can facilitate development of call actions by research community reify vision. Specifically, discuss possible directions in which researchers providers from perspective, configuration management, data security, application migration, performance, testing debugging,