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API Usability and Security Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)

Poster
This poster describes an effort to develop and empirically test API design principles.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

Our goal is to develop and empirically test concrete and actionable API design principles that lead to more secure code. APIs are the boundaries between system components, defining how they interact. Programmers failing to commonly understand how an API should be used causes failures.