  Architecture recovery tools help software engineers obtain an overview of
their software systems during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
This is especially important for microservice applications because their
distributed nature makes it more challenging to oversee the architecture.
Various tools and techniques for this task are presented in academic and grey
literature sources. Practitioners and researchers can benefit from a
comprehensive overview of these tools and their abilities. However, no such
overview exists that is based on executing the identified tools and assessing
their outputs regarding effectiveness. With the study described in this paper,
we plan to first identify static analysis architecture recovery tools for
microservice applications via a multi-vocal literature review, and then execute
them on a common dataset and compare the measured effectiveness in architecture
recovery. We will focus on static approaches because they are also suitable for
integration into fast-paced CI/CD pipelines.
