An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb

Web APIs provide various functionalities that can be leveraged by developers in building their applications. ProgrammableWeb, which is the largest and most active web API and mashup collection, provides a record of thousands of web APIs and mashups. However, important properties about these large nu...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: TIAN, Yuan, KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh, LO, David
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3742
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4744/viewcontent/p202_Tian.pdf
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
id sg-smu-ink.sis_research-4744
record_format dspace
spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-47442020-03-31T06:09:17Z An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb TIAN, Yuan KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh LO, David Web APIs provide various functionalities that can be leveraged by developers in building their applications. ProgrammableWeb, which is the largest and most active web API and mashup collection, provides a record of thousands of web APIs and mashups. However, important properties about these large number of web APIs, such as their functionality and support/resources for learning, have never been studied by the existing research work. In this study, we perform an exploratory analysis on functionality and learning resources of 9,883 web APIs and 4,315 mashups listed on ProgrammableWeb, and find that: (1) web APIs provide a wide range of functionalities related to business solution, text analysis, data source, etc.; many of them are substitutable; only a minority have been used with other APIs; (2) a majority of web APIs on ProgrammableWeb have provided resources to support developers in learning how to use the APIs 2017-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3742 info:doi/10.1145/3084226.3084286 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4744/viewcontent/p202_Tian.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Engineering research Software engineering Databases and Information Systems Software Engineering
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
collection InK@SMU
language English
topic Engineering research
Software engineering
Databases and Information Systems
Software Engineering
spellingShingle Engineering research
Software engineering
Databases and Information Systems
Software Engineering
TIAN, Yuan
KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
LO, David
An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb
description Web APIs provide various functionalities that can be leveraged by developers in building their applications. ProgrammableWeb, which is the largest and most active web API and mashup collection, provides a record of thousands of web APIs and mashups. However, important properties about these large number of web APIs, such as their functionality and support/resources for learning, have never been studied by the existing research work. In this study, we perform an exploratory analysis on functionality and learning resources of 9,883 web APIs and 4,315 mashups listed on ProgrammableWeb, and find that: (1) web APIs provide a wide range of functionalities related to business solution, text analysis, data source, etc.; many of them are substitutable; only a minority have been used with other APIs; (2) a majority of web APIs on ProgrammableWeb have provided resources to support developers in learning how to use the APIs
format text
author TIAN, Yuan
KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
LO, David
author_facet TIAN, Yuan
KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
LO, David
author_sort TIAN, Yuan
title An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb
title_short An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb
title_full An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb
title_fullStr An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb
title_full_unstemmed An exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web APIs on Programmableweb
title_sort exploratory study of functionality and learning resources of web apis on programmableweb
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3742
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4744/viewcontent/p202_Tian.pdf
_version_ 1770573707911102464