Benchmarking Web API Quality

Web APIs are increasingly becoming an integral part of web or mobile applications. As a consequence, performance characteristics and availability of the APIs used directly impact the user experience of end users. Still, quality of web APIs is largely ignored and simply assumed to be sufficiently goo...

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Published inWeb Engineering pp. 188 - 206
Main Authors Bermbach, David, Wittern, Erik
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Client Device
Domain Name Service
Server Error
Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol Connection
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Summary:Web APIs are increasingly becoming an integral part of web or mobile applications. As a consequence, performance characteristics and availability of the APIs used directly impact the user experience of end users. Still, quality of web APIs is largely ignored and simply assumed to be sufficiently good and stable. Especially considering geo-mobility of today’s client devices, this can lead to negative surprises at runtime. In this work, we present an approach and toolkit for benchmarking the quality of web APIs considering geo-mobility of clients. Using our benchmarking tool, we then present the surprising results of a geo-distributed 3-month benchmark run for 15 web APIs and discuss how application developers can deal with volatile quality both from an architectural and engineering point of view.
Bibliography:Author names are in alphabetical order as both authors have contributed equally.
ISBN:3319387901
9783319387901
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-38791-8_11