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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential tools for social work researchers aiming to harness advanced technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI services. This paper demystifies APIs and illustrates how they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Brian E. Perron , Hui Luan , Zia Qi , Bryan G. Victor , Kavin Goyal

Modern web applications rely heavily on client-side API calls to fetch data, render content, and communicate with backend services. However, the quality of these network interactions (redundant requests, missing cache headers, oversized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ali Hassaan Mughal , Muhammad Bilal , Noor Fatima

API integration is a cornerstone of our digital infrastructure, enabling software systems to connect and interact. However, as shown by many studies, writing or generating correct code to invoke APIs, particularly web APIs, is challenging.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Daniel Maninger , Leon Chemnitz , Amir Molzam Sharifloo , Tushar Lamba , Jannis Brugger , Mira Mezini

Commercial ML APIs offered by providers such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have dramatically simplified ML adoption in many applications. Numerous companies and academics pay to use ML APIs for tasks such as object detection, OCR and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lingjiao Chen , Zhihua Jin , Sabri Eyuboglu , Christopher Ré , Matei Zaharia , James Zou

Android users are now suffering severe threats from unwanted behaviors of various apps. The analysis of apps' audit logs is one of the essential methods for some device manufacturers to unveil the underlying malice within apps. We propose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Zhaoyi Meng , Yan Xiong , Wenchao Huang , Fuyou Miao , Jianmeng Huang

Understanding the behaviour of a system's API can be hard. Giving users access to relevant examples of how an API behaves has been shown to make this easier for them. In addition, such examples can be used to verify expected behaviour or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Stefan Karlsson , John Hughes , Robbert Jongeling , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

Web content should be accessible to normal and disabled communities on electronic devices. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has created standard guidelines called Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Mobile Web Best Practice…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Muhammad Ishaq

Nowadays, many companies design and develop their software systems as a set of loosely coupled microservices that communicate via their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). While the loose coupling improves maintainability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Alexander Lercher , Johann Glock , Christian Macho , Martin Pinzger

This articles surveys the existing literature on the methods currently used by web services to track the user online as well as their purposes, implications, and possible user's defenses. A significant majority of reviewed articles and web…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Tomasz Bujlow , Valentín Carela-Español , Josep Solé-Pareta , Pere Barlet-Ros

Tracing the sequence of library and system calls that a program makes is very helpful in the characterization of its interactions with the surrounding environment and ultimately of its semantics. Due to entanglements of real-world software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Daniele Cono D'Elia , Simone Nicchi , Matteo Mariani , Matteo Marini , Federico Palmaro

When learning to use an Application Programming Interface (API), programmers need to understand the inputs and outputs (I/O) of the API functions. Current documentation tools automatically document the static information of I/O, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Siyuan Jiang , Ameer Armaly , Collin McMillan , Qiyu Zhi , Ronald Metoyer

With the advancements in the enterprise-level business development, the demand for new applications and services is overwhelming. For the development and delivery of such applications and services, enterprise businesses rely on Application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Fatima Hussain , Rasheed Hussain , Brett Noye , Salah Sharieh

Context: Logging is an important part of modern software projects; logs are used in several tasks such as debugging and testing. Due to the complex nature of logging, it remains a difficult task with several pitfalls that could have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Nyyti Saarimäki , Donghwan Shin , Domenico Bianculli

Application programming interfaces (APIs) offer a plethora of functionalities for developers to reuse without reinventing the wheel. Identifying the appropriate APIs given a project requirement is critical for the success of a project, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ferdian Thung , Richard J. Oentaryo , David Lo , Yuan Tian

With the rapid growth of mobile apps, users' concerns about their privacy have become increasingly prominent. Android app logs serve as crucial computer resources, aiding developers in debugging and monitoring the status of Android apps,…

In the era of Cyber Physical Systems, designers need to offer support for run-time adaptivity considering different constraints, including the internal status of the system. This work presents a run-time monitoring approach, based on the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tiziana Fanni , Daniel Madronal , Claudio Rubattu , Carlo Sau , Francesca Palumbo , Eduardo Juarez , Maxime Pelcat , Cesar Sanz , Luigi Raffo

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yanjing Yang , Chenxing Zhong , Ke Han , Zeru Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Bohan Liu

Nowadays, developers often reuse existing APIs to implement their programming tasks. A lot of API usage patterns are mined to help developers learn API usage rules. However, there are still many missing variables to be synthesized when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Qi Shen , Shijun Wu , Yanzhen Zou , Bing Xie

Web Applications (WA's) failures may lead to collapse of the institutions, therefore the importance of good quality WA's is increasing over the time. Testing is one of the best quality metrics that decide whether WA's are reliable or not.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Mostafa Kandil , Ehab Hassanein , Sherif Mazen

As we reach exascale, production High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are increasing in complexity. These systems now comprise multiple heterogeneous computing components (CPUs and GPUs) utilized through diverse, often vendor-specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Solomon Bekele , Aurelio Vivas , Thomas Applencourt , Servesh Muralidharan , Bryce Allen , Kazutomo Yoshiiinst , Swann Perarnau , Brice Videau