Software developers and project teams spend considerable amount of time in identifying
and fixing faults reported by testers and users. Predicting defects and identifying regions in …

Like traditional local APIs, web service APIs (web APIs for short) evolve, bringing new and
improved functionality as well as incompatibilities. Client programs have to be modified …

When applications are integrated using web APIs, changes on a web API may break the
dependent applications. This problem exists because old versions of the APIs may no longer …

Web APIs provide a systematic and extensible approach for application-to-application
interaction. Developers using web APIs are forced to accompany the API providers in their …

A service ecosystem consists of services and their compositions (ie, mashups) and evolves
as a complex network system. It is driven by continuously emerged new services and the …

With the rapid adoption of REpresentational State Transfer (REST), more software
organizations expose their applications as RESTful web APIs and client code developers …

Software fault prediction models are used to predict faulty modules at the very early stage of
software development life cycle. Predicting fault proneness using source code metrics is an …

In the service-oriented paradigm web service interfaces are considered contracts between
web service subscribers and providers. However, these interfaces are continuously evolving …

Popularity of service-oriented computing makes more and more companies and
organizations provide their services through Web Application Program Interfaces (Web …

In 2008 the predecessor of this book, entitled “Software Evolution”[592] was published by
Springer, presenting the research results of a number of researchers working on different …