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摘要
Web api提供了开发人员在构建应用程序时可以利用的各种功能。ProgrammableWeb是最大和最活跃的web API和mashup集合，提供了数千个web API和mashup的记录。然而，关于这些大量的web api的重要属性，例如它们的功能和对学习的支持/资源，现有的研究工作从未研究过。在本研究中，我们对ProgrammableWeb上列出的9883个web api和4315个mashup的功能和学习资源进行了探索性分析，发现:(1)web api提供了与业务解决方案、文本分析、数据源等相关的广泛功能;其中许多是可替代的;只有一小部分与其他api一起使用;(2) programableweb上的大多数web api都提供了资源来支持开发人员学习如何使用这些api。
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 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.
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