Web API growing pains: Loosely coupled yet strongly tied

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 27-43

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

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Clinic Esslingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

API; Breaking changes; Software evolution; Web

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BREAKING CHANGES; CLIENT SOFTWARE; LOOSELY COUPLED; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SERVICE EVOLUTIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOURCE CODE CHANGES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84919339677     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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