Modeling support for strategic API planning and analysis
Paper in proceedings, 2018
APIs provide value beyond technical functionality. They enable and manage access to strategic business assets and play a key role in enabling software ecosystems. Existing work has begun to consider the strategic business value of software APIs, but such work has limited analysis capabilities and has not made use of established, structured modeling techniques from software and requirements engineering. Such modeling languages have been used for strategic analysis of ecosystems and value exchange. We believe these techniques expand analysis possibilities for APIs, and we apply them as part of a cross-company case study focused on strategic API planning and analysis. Results show that goal, value, and workflow modeling provide new, API-specific benefits that include mapping the API ecosystem, facilitating incremental API planning, understanding dynamic API-specific roles, identifying bottlenecks in API change workflows, and identifying API value.
Strategic analysis
Conceptual modeling
APIs
Author
Jennifer Horkoff
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering for Testing, Requirements, Innovation and Psychology
University of Gothenburg
Juho Lindman
University of Gothenburg
Imed Hammouda
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering for People, Architecture, Requirements and Traceability
South Mediterranean University
Eric Knauss
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering for Testing, Requirements, Innovation and Psychology
University of Gothenburg
Jamel Debbiche
University of Gothenburg
Martina Freiholtz
University of Gothenburg
Patrik Liao
University of Gothenburg
Stephen Mensah
University of Gothenburg
Aksel Strömberg
University of Gothenburg
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
1865-1348 (ISSN)
Vol. 336 10-26
9th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2018
Tallinn, Estonia,
Tallinn, Estonia,
Subject Categories
Other Computer and Information Science
Software Engineering
Information Science
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-04840-2_2