1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a code of an application, the code being in an intermediate format, the intermediate format being intermediate to a source format and an executable format of the code; identifying, by a computing system, a portion of the code having the code for serializing an instance of an object into a data stream, the serializing performed using a target serialization scheme; determining, by the computer system, if the portion of the code matches with one of multiple serialization scheme templates, the serialization scheme templates corresponding to distinct serialization schemes; and responsive to a determination that the portion of the code matches with a serialization scheme template of the serialization scheme templates, identifying, by the computer system, a serialization scheme corresponding to the serialization scheme template as the target serialization scheme used by the application.