Web APIs: Features, issues, and expectations: A large-scale empirical study of web APIs from two publicly accessible registries using Stack Overflow and a user survey

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Neng, ZOU, Ying, XIA, Xin, LO, David, LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Mashups; Feature extraction; Software development management; Software;Documentation; Companies; Testing; Web APIs; empirical study; user survey; Stack Overflow; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7822; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8825/viewcontent/tse222_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With the increasing adoption of services-oriented computing and cloud computing technologies, web APIs have become the fundamental building blocks for constructing software applications. Web APIs are developed and published on the internet. The functionality of web APIs can be used to facilitate the...