Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a rapidly growing industry and the usability of
the APIs is crucial to programmer productivity. Although prior research has shown that APIs …

The Cloud offers many ready-made REST services for the end users. This offer allows
realizing a service level agreement (SLA) through the implementation of multiple services …

Company X is one of the companies engaged in the telecommunications business. To
improve customer service, the company developed an Application Programming Interface) …

RESTful APIs are popular web services, requiring documentation to ease their
comprehension, reusability and testing practices. The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a …

Abstract Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become prevalent in today's
software systems and services. APIs are basically a technical means to realize the co …

API Governance, the process of applying standardized sets of policies and guardrails to the
design and development of APIs, has only grown in importance and prominence given the …

Generating and maintaining API documentation with integrity and consistency can be time-
consuming and expensive for evolving APIs. To solve this problem, several approaches …

Many companies, eg, Facebook and YouTube, use the REST architecture and provide
REST APIs to their clients. Like any other software systems, REST APIs need maintenance …

As Representational State Transfer (REST)-based Web APIs are spreading to enterprise
information systems, software development for the use and provision of Web APIs is rapidly …

REST APIs expose web services to clients. Although experts have recommended guidelines
for REST API design, there is little empirical evidence regarding the relationship between …