Insights into API Management Quality Characterization, Measurement and Evaluation

• Eder dos Santos UNPA / CONICET

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cibse.2025.35310

Resumo

APIs have become a cornerstone in software ecosystems: organizations have been increasingly connecting software applications to share complex digital assets. However, managing APIs is non-trivial, and companies have been struggling with different quality-related issues in managing their APIs. The main goal of this work is to create a framework that allows characterizing, assessing, and improving API Management and API governance, particularly focusing on API Gateways as the core elements of API Management ecosystems.

Palavras-chave: API Management, API GatewaySoftware Quality, Software Engineering

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