The API Performance Contract.

The article examines application programming interfaces (API) in computer programming. The performance contract, the expectations of API performance from users of a computer system and its software, is considered. A taxonomy of API functions is offered. API behavior in response to call failures is d...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 45 - 52
Main Authors:	SPROULL, ROBERT F., WALDO, JIM
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2014
Subjects:	Programming languages Computer programming Automatic programming (Computer science) Software architecture Computer software quality control Software reliability
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