Trust Factors and Third-Party Web APIs: A survey on what factors influences developers’ trust in third-party web APIs
2021 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Förtroendefaktorer och Webb-APIer från tredje part : En undersökning på vilka faktorer som påverkar utvecklares förtroende för webb-APIer från tredje part (Swedish)
Abstract [en]
Third-party web APIs are becoming ever more popular as the API economy continues to grow. Software developers often integrate them into their own applications. The issue is that even if a developer thoroughly tests that their application works properly with the third-party web API, the owner of that API can completely change the code at any time, or take the API offline altogether, either temporarily or permanently. This makes for potentially less stable or reliable applications. This report attempts to determine what some of the factors are that most influence software developers’ trust in any given third party Web API. To do this, 42 individuals involved with software development were surveyed. Documentation and reliability came through as the strongest factors influencing their trust, but there is no general consensus on other factors. Further work could be done to confirm that these two factors are what influence developer trust the most, as well as work to determine which factor sought to influence developers’ trust in any given third-party web API, and thus work towards more reliable applications being developed as the API economy continues to grow.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 34
Keywords [en]
web APIs, third-party web APIs, trustworthiness, trust factors, API economy
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-106223OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-106223DiVA, id: diva2:1586877
Subject / course
Computer Science
Educational program
Software Technology Programme, 180 credits
Supervisors
Examiners
2021-08-232021-08-232021-08-23Bibliographically approved