Evaluating the UX of a Microservice Web App: CyberRanges in the μDevOps Project

Microservice architectures are becoming increasingly important since they facilitate agile and modular production cycles to deliver applications using collections of loosely coupled and fine-grained services. The mu DevOps is a research project formed by an international network of organizations including industry and academia that aims to tackle current challenges of microservice development operations. This paper presents the mu DevOps project and the initial research carried out to evaluate the user experience of a microservice web application that delivers cybersecurity learning. Results point to critical elements of three main functionalities: library of scenarios, scenario information and entering scenario. Since there are several currently available solutions that offer similar services, the user experience of the microservice web app may play a critical role in determining which application will get a dominant role in the market.