Abstract
In this paper, we overview the tutorial presented at the 16th European Conference on Software Architecture. The tutorial’s goal was to summarize the challenges and approaches for verification and validation in microservices systems. We introduced the PPTAM approach for dependability assessment. PPTAM employs a variety of architectural artifacts and steps, including the use of operational data obtained from production-level application performance management (APM) tools, the automated assessment of load tests based on defined scalability requirements, and the development of computationally efficient algorithms for software performance anti-pattern (SPA) detection that could be implemented in CI/CD pipelines.