TY - GEN
T1 - Extracting models from web API documentation
AU - Rodríguez, Rolando
AU - Espinosa, Roberto
AU - Bianchini, Devis
AU - Garrigós, Irene
AU - Mazón, Jose Norberto
AU - Zubcoff, Jose Jacobo
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In order to develop web mashups, designers need an in-depth understanding of each Web API they are using. However, Web API documentation is rather heterogeneous, represented by big HTML files or collection of files in which it is difficult to identify elements such as API methods and how they can be invoked. Models have been widely recognized as first-citizen artifacts for documenting software applications, abstracting from implementation details, thus becoming good candidates to raise the level of automation of web mashup development. In this paper we present an approach for extracting models from Web API documentation. Our contributions are (i) a metamodel for standardizing the information extracted from Web APIs documentation; and (ii) a method for the extraction of models by parsing HTML files containing the Web API documentation, discovering useful data, and automatically generating the corresponding models (that conform to the defined metamodel).
AB - In order to develop web mashups, designers need an in-depth understanding of each Web API they are using. However, Web API documentation is rather heterogeneous, represented by big HTML files or collection of files in which it is difficult to identify elements such as API methods and how they can be invoked. Models have been widely recognized as first-citizen artifacts for documenting software applications, abstracting from implementation details, thus becoming good candidates to raise the level of automation of web mashup development. In this paper we present an approach for extracting models from Web API documentation. Our contributions are (i) a metamodel for standardizing the information extracted from Web APIs documentation; and (ii) a method for the extraction of models by parsing HTML files containing the Web API documentation, discovering useful data, and automatically generating the corresponding models (that conform to the defined metamodel).
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84870877034
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-35623-0_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-35623-0_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870877034
SN - 9783642356223
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 134
EP - 145
BT - Current Trends in Web Engineering - ICWE 2012 International Workshops, MDWE, ComposableWeb, WeRE, QWE, and Doctoral Consortium, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Nature
T2 - 8th International Workshop on Model-Driven and Agile Engineering for the Web, MDWE 2012 and 4th International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web, ComposableWeb 2012 and 3rd Workshop on Web and Requirements Engineering, WeRE 2012and 3rd International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering, QWE 2012, and Doctoral Consortium, co-located with 12th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2012
Y2 - 23 July 2012 through 27 July 2012
ER -