Table 5 Inclusion and Exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

 1. Keynotes, conference papers, journal papers, books and book chapters dealing with the design and characterization of applications intentionally designed to be deployed on a multi-cloud based distributed infrastructural ecosystem

 2. Publication language is English

 3. Peer reviewed articles

 4. Keywords are included in the title and / or the abstract

 5. It is clearly stated that the paper focuses on the field of software engineering

Exclusion criteria

 1. Full text not available

 2. Grey literature

 3. The abstract or content of the paper made obvious that a contribution lays out-side the scope of the study which is the characterization of multi cloud native applications.

 4. Duplicated studies

 5. Proceeding letters

 6. Short papers/posters