Title :
Inferring Data Contract for Web-Based API
Author :
Chushu Gao ; Jun Wei ; Hua Zhong ; Tao Huang
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Software, Beijing, China
fDate :
June 27 2014-July 2 2014
Abstract :
Web-based API is a new trend for publishing services. To correctly use the API, developers should follow certain service specifications. Data contract is a service specification to express the constraints over the data model used in the APIs. Data contracts, however are not always readily available in a formalized format if not undocumented at all. In this paper, we present an approach to infer formal data contracts for Web-based API. The approach integrates information of the parameters, error messages and testing result of Web-based API. We demonstrate how this approach infers complicated data preconditions for Web-based API in the real-world Web API platforms.
Keywords :
Internet; application program interfaces; data models; formal specification; inference mechanisms; Web-based API; complicated data precondition inference; data model; formal data contracts; service specifications; Classification algorithms; Contracts; Decision trees; Documentation; Libraries; Testing; Web services; Web API; data contract; web services;
Conference_Titel :
Web Services (ICWS), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5053-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICWS.2014.22
