NDLI: Understanding API Usage to Support Informed Decision Making in Software Maintenance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bauer, V. Heinemann, L.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Reuse of third-party libraries promises significant productivity improvements in software development. However, dependencies on external libraries and their APIs also introduce risks to a project and impact strategic decisions during development and maintenance. Informed decision making therefore requires a thorough understanding of the extent and nature of dependencies on external APIs. As realistically sized applications are often heavily entangled with various external APIs, gaining this understanding is infeasible with manual inspections only. To address this, we present an automated approach to analyze the dependencies of software projects on external APIs. The approach is supported by a static analysis tool featuring a visualization of the analysis results. We evaluate the approach as well as the tooling on multiple open source Java systems.
Starting Page	435
Ending Page	440
File Size	514049
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467309844
ISSN	15345351
e-ISBN	9780769546667
DOI	10.1109/CSMR.2012.55
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-03-27
Publisher Place	Hungary
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Libraries Software Complexity theory Visualization Java Maintenance engineering Data visualization software maintenance software reuse API library
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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