[occi-wg] Paper: Are REST APIs for Cloud Computing Well-Designed? An Exploratory Study

[Sill, Alan]

Dear OCCI working group,

Hope those of you in the US celebrating Thanksgiving are having a pleasant time with friends and family.

For those who are interested, the paper at the link below is useful reading.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01352738/document

>From the conclusions and future work section:

"For our first contribution, we reviewed the literature extensively and compiled a catalog of 73 best practices in the design of REST APIs making APIs more understandable and reusable. We believe that our catalog is exhaustive at the time of writing. We hope that this catalog can be used by other researchers to study some quality characteristics of REST APIs as well as practitioners when designing, implementing, and assessing their own REST APIs. 

For our second contribution, we evaluated and compared the design of the REST APIs using best practices from the literature and showed that Google Cloud follows 66% (48/73), OpenStack follows 62% (45/73), and OCCI 1.2 follows 56% (41/73) of the best practices."

Alan