Web API Fragility: How Robust is Your Web API Client

Title

Web API Fragility: How Robust is Your Web API Client

 Author

Espinha, T.
Zaidman, A.
Gross, H.G.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Software Technology

 Date

2014-08-31

 Abstract

Web APIs provide a systematic and extensible approach for application-to-application interaction. A large number of mobile applications makes use of web APIs to integrate services into apps. Each Web API’s evolution pace is determined by their respective developer and mobile application developers are forced to accompany the API providers in their software evolution tasks. In this paper we investigate whether mobile application developers understand and how they deal with the added distress of web APIs evolving. In particular, we studied how robust 48 high profile mobile applications are when dealing with mutated web API responses. Additionally, we interviewed three mobile application developers to better understand their choices and trade-offs regarding web API integration.

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 Publisher

Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

 ISSN

1872-5392

 Source

Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2014-009

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

report

 Rights

© 2014 The Author(s) . Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology
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