To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, programmers often reuse existing libraries or frameworks by invoking methods provided in their APIs. Those API methods, however, are often complex and not well documented. To get familiar with how those API methods are used, programmers often exploit a source code search tool to search for code snippets that use the API m...

The W3C Web Cryptography API will be the standard API for accessing cryptographic primitives in Javascript-based environments. We describe the motivations behind the creation of the W3C Web Cryptography API, deal with a number of objections, and then describe the API in detail with motivating use-cases and sample code. Lastly, we outline open issues and how the wider academic and security commu...

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. An API expresses a software component in terms of its operations, inputs, outputs, and underlying types. An API defines functionalities that are independent of their respective implementations, which allows definitions and implementations to vary wit...