The future of API analytics

Di Wu, Hongyu Zhang, Yang Feng, Zhenjiang Dong, Ying Sun

Abstract: Reusing APIs can greatly expedite the software development process and reduce programming effort. To learn how to use APIs, developers often rely on API learning resources (such as API references and tutorials) that contain rich and valuable API knowledge. In recent years, numerous API analytic approaches have been presented to help developers mine API knowledge from API learning resources. While these approaches have shown promising results in various tasks, there are many opportunities in this area. In this paper, we discuss several possible future works on API analytics.