Analyzing the Change-Proneness of APIs and web APIs

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Analyzing the Change-Proneness of APIs and web APIs APIs and web APIs are used to expose existing business logic and, hence, to ease the reuse of functionalities across multiple software systems. Software systems can use the business logic of legacy systems by binding their APIs and web APIs. With the emergence of a new programming paradigm called service-oriented, APIs are exposed as web APIs hiding the technologies used to implement legacy systems. As a consequence, web APIs establish contracts between legacy systems and their consumers and they should stay as stable as possible to not break consumers’ systems. This dissertation aims at better understanding the change-proneness of APIs and web APIs. Specifically to that end, we investigated which indicators can be used to highlight change-prone APIs and web APIs and we provided approaches to assist practitioners in refactoring them. To perform this analysis we adopted a research approach consisting of three different tracks: analysis

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