Towards Automatically Estimating Porting Effort Between Web Service APIs

被引：2
作者：
Jayathilaka, Hiranya [1 ]
Krintz, Chandra [1 ]
Wolski, Rich [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Comp Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
来源：
2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICES COMPUTING (SCC 2014) | 2014年
关键词：
Web APIs; Porting effort; Semantic similarity;
D O I：
10.1109/SCC.2014.105
中图分类号：
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号：
081202 ;
摘要：
In this paper, we describe a new methodology for automatically quantifying the relative work required for a programmer to port an application from one web API to another, i.e. "porting effort". Our approach defines a simple language (based on Python) with which API developers specify the semantics of API operations, a tool set that consumes and extracts semantic similarity of API operations from annotations expressed in this language, and a metric that facilitates ranking of porting effort for API operation pairs. We evaluate our approach using both randomly generated and real-world web APIs and show that our metric can correctly categorize the relative difficulty that developers associate with porting an application from one API to another.
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页码：774 / 781
页数：8
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