November 25, 2021 Conference paper Open Access

Serbout, Souhaila; Pautasso, Cesare; Zdun, Uwe; Zimmermann, Olaf

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    <subfield code="a">&lt;p&gt;In the past few years, the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) has emerged&lt;br&gt;
as a standard description language for accurately modeling Web&lt;br&gt;
APIs. Today, thousands of OpenAPI descriptions can be found by&lt;br&gt;
mining open source repositories. In this paper, we attempt to exploit&lt;br&gt;
these artifacts to extract commonly occurring building blocks used&lt;br&gt;
inWeb API structures, in order to assistWeb API designers in their&lt;br&gt;
modelling task. Our work is based on a fragmentation mechanism,&lt;br&gt;
that starts from OpenAPI descriptions ofWeb APIs to extract their&lt;br&gt;
structures, then fragment these structures into smaller blocks. This&lt;br&gt;
approach enabled us to extract a large dataset of reoccurring fragments&lt;br&gt;
from a collection of 6619 API specifications. Such fragments&lt;br&gt;
have been found multiple times in the same or across different APIs.&lt;br&gt;
We have classified the most reoccurring fragments into four pattern&lt;br&gt;
primitives used to expose in the API access to collections of items.&lt;br&gt;
We distinguish for each primitive variants from design smells. This&lt;br&gt;
classification is based on the specific combinations of operations&lt;br&gt;
associated with the collection items and on an in-depth analysis of&lt;br&gt;
their natural language labels and descriptions. The resulting pattern&lt;br&gt;
primitives are intended to support designers who would like to introduce&lt;br&gt;
one or more collections for a specific class of items in their&lt;br&gt;
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