Method and system for identifying and extracting independent services from a computer program

A method for identifying and extracting independent services from a computer program, comprising:

• retrieving, by a processing circuitry, code and runtime data of the computer program, upon reception of a request to extract at least one service;
• performing, by the processing circuitry, a dynamic analysis on the retrieved code to determine code resources of the computer program;
• identifying, by the processing circuitry, based on the code resources and the runtime data, boundaries of each service of services included in the computer program and are independent of other services, wherein identifying the boundaries of each service of the services comprises generating a stop list, the stop list includes for each identified service at least a start entry-point of the identified service;
• deriving, by the processing circuitry, context and compile-time dependencies of the computer program using static analysis, wherein deriving the context and the compile-time dependencies of the computer program comprises iteratively detecting compile-time dependencies in the code resources;
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• generating, by the processing circuitry based on the context, the compile-time dependencies, and the code resources, a service specification file for each independent service of the services included in the computer program, wherein an independent service includes all resources require for its execution independently of the computer program.