@ARTICLE{Lamothe21-CSUR-APIEvolution,
   AUTHOR       = {Maxime Lamothe and Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc and Weiyi Shang},
   JOURNAL      = {Computing Surveys (CSUR)},
   TITLE        = {A Systematic Review of API Evolution Literature},
   YEAR         = {2021},
   MONTH        = {October},
   NOTE         = {36 pages.},
   NUMBER       = {8},
   PAGES        = {1--26},
   VOLUME       = {54},
   EDITOR       = {Albert Zomaya},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Evolution patterns</b>, Venue: <b>CSUR</b>},
   PUBLISHER    = {ACM Press},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/CSUR22.doc.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the 
      development and usage of application programming interfaces (APIs). 
      From millions of Android packages (APKs) available on Google Store to 
      millions of open-source packages available in Maven, PyPI, and npm, 
      APIs have become an integral part of software development. Like any 
      software artifact, software APIs evolve and suffer from this 
      evolution. Prior research has uncovered many challenges to the 
      development, usage, and evolution of APIs. While some challenges have 
      been studied and solved, many remain. These challenges are scattered 
      in the literature, which hides advances and cloaks the remaining 
      challenges. In this systematic literature review on APIs and API 
      evolution, we uncover and describe publication trends and trending 
      topics. We compile common research goals, evaluation methods, 
      metrics, and subjects. We summarize the current state-of-the-art and 
      outline known existing challenges as well as new challenges uncovered 
      during this review. We conclude that the main remaining challenges 
      related to APIs and API evolution are (1) automatically identifying 
      and leveraging factors that drive API changes, (2) creating and using 
      uniform benchmarks for research evaluation, and (3) understanding the 
      impact of API evolution on API developers and users with respect to 
      various programming languages.}
}

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