Web API Fragility: How Robust is Your Mobile Application?

Tiago Espinha; Andy Zaidman; Hans Gerhard Gross

doi:10.1109/MobileSoft.2015.9

Web API Fragility: How Robust is Your Mobile Application?

Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans Gerhard Gross

Software Engineering

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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 and how mobile application developers deal with the added distress of web APIs evolving. In particular, we studied how robust 43 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	12-21
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479919345
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileSoft.2015.9
Publication status	Published - 28 Sep 2015
Event	2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2015 - Florence, Italy Duration: 16 May 2015 → 17 May 2015

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Conference	2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	16/05/15 → 17/05/15

Keywords

Androids
Humanoid robots
Interviews
Mobile applications
Mobile communication
Software
XML

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Espinha, T, Zaidman, A & Gross, HG 2015, Web API Fragility: How Robust is Your Mobile Application? in Proceedings - 2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2015., 7283022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 12-21, 2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2015, Florence, Italy, 16/05/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileSoft.2015.9

Web API Fragility : How Robust is Your Mobile Application? / Espinha, Tiago; Zaidman, Andy; Gross, Hans Gerhard.

Proceedings - 2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015. p. 12-21 7283022.

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