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

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 84-93

  Espinha, Tiago ^a   Zaidman, Andy ^a   Gross, Hans Gerhard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEST PRACTICES; CLIENT SOFTWARE; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GOOGLE MAPS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SERVICE EVOLUTIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOURCE CODE CHANGES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84898401218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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