DepAPI: api演进对性能的影响

IF 1.8 3区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Journal of Computer Languages Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI:10.1016/j.cola.2025.101353

Naser AlDuaij

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摘要

背景：随着移动系统变得无处不在，许多开发人员瞄准移动系统来开发和发布他们的应用程序。平台开发人员为应用程序开发人员提供API文档。由于应用程序性能是向用户提供可用且可扩展的移动应用程序的关键，因此应用程序开发人员必须依靠平台API文档来仔细设计和实现他们的代码。随着多个版本和平台的持续开发，这些api可能会发生变化，并可能被弃用。平台开发人员需要为应用程序开发人员提供更新或替代的API，以防API被弃用。以前的研究主要关注API弃用如何影响开发工作以及API如何发展，但之前没有研究探索这些API弃用对性能的影响。目标：创建一种方法来分类已弃用的api，并研究这些已弃用的api的性能影响。方法：该研究（称为DepAPI）提出了一种称为depclassifier的方法，根据api的类型对已弃用的api进行识别和分类。depclassified提供了一种方法，可以根据最流行的应用程序及其最常用的api来选择要测试的api。该研究还介绍了应用该方法的DepTool，将Android作为示例操作系统，并显示API弃用对性能的影响。这是第一个调查API弃用对性能影响的研究。结果：结果表明，性能影响非常显著，足以引起平台和应用程序开发人员的注意。此外，对DepAPI的一项特定研究表明，使用弃用的面向用户的API会影响可用性。结论：基于结果，DepAPI建议系统开发人员应该向开发人员提供更新其api的性能影响。应用程序开发人员在更新应用程序以使用更新的或可替代的api时，应该注意性能影响。

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DepAPI: The performance impact of the evolution of APIs

Context:

As mobile systems have become ubiquitous, many developers target mobile systems to develop and release their applications. Platform developers provide API documentation for application developers to rely on. Since application performance is key to providing a usable and scalable mobile application to users, application developers must rely on platform API documentation to carefully design and implement their code. With multiple releases and ongoing development of platforms, these APIs are subject to change and may become deprecated. Platform developers require newer or alternative APIs for application developers in case an API becomes deprecated. Previous studies focused on how API deprecations affect development effort and how APIs evolve, but no prior study has explored the performance impact of these API deprecations.

Objective:

Create a methodology to classify deprecated APIs and study the performance implications of these deprecated APIs.

Method:

This study, referred to as DepAPI, presents a methodology called DepClassify to identify and classify deprecated APIs in terms of their types. DepClassify provides a method to select the APIs to test based on the most popular applications and their most frequently used APIs. The study also introduces DepTool that applies the methodology using Android as an exemplary operating system and shows the performance impact of API deprecation. This is the first study to investigate the performance impact of API deprecations.

Results:

The results show that the performance impact is significant enough to warrant the attention of both platform and application developers. Additionally, a specific study in DepAPI with a deprecated user-facing API shows that usability is affected.

Conclusion:

Based on the results, DepAPI recommends that system developers should provide developers with the performance implications of updating their APIs. Application developers should pay attention to the performance impact when updating their applications to use newer or alternative APIs.

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Journal of Computer Languages Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

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5.00

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13.60%

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