Web API成长的烦恼:客户端开发人员和他们的代码的故事

2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE) Pub Date : 2014-02-01 DOI:10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747228

Tiago Espinha, A. Zaidman, H. Groß

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Web api为应用程序到应用程序的交互提供了一种系统的和可扩展的方法。使用web API的开发人员被迫在他们的软件开发任务中陪伴API提供者。为了理解这种强加给web API客户端开发人员带来的困扰，我们对6位这样的开发人员进行了半结构化的采访。我们还研究了主要的web API提供商如何组织他们的API演变，并探讨了这如何影响他们的客户端源代码的变化。我们对Twitter、b谷歌Maps、Facebook和Netflix的web API进行了探索性研究，分析了web API演进实践的现状，并提供了服务演进对客户端软件的影响。我们的研究补充了一组关于web API发展最佳实践的观察结果。

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Web API growing pains: Stories from client developers and their code

Web APIs provide a systematic and extensible approach for application-to-application interaction. Developers using web APIs are forced to accompany the API providers in their software evolution tasks. In order to understand the distress caused by this imposition on web API client developers we perform a semi-structured interview with six such developers. We also investigate how major web API providers organize their API evolution, and we explore how this affects source code changes of their clients. Our exploratory study of the Twitter, Google Maps, Facebook and Netflix web APIs analyzes the state of web API evolution practices and provides insight into the impact of service evolution on client software. Our study is complemented with a set of observations regarding best practices for web API evolution.

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2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE)

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