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A Natural Language Driven Approach for Automated Web API Development: Gherkin2OAS

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Anastasios Dimanidis,

Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou,

Andreas L. SymeonidisAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018

Pages 1869 - 1874

https://doi.org/10.1145/3184558.3191654

Published: 23 April 2018 Publication History

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Speeding up the development process of Web Services, while adhering to high quality software standards is a typical requirement in the software industry. This is why industry specialists usually suggest "driven by" development approaches to tackle this problem. In this paper, we propose such a methodology that employs Specification Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development in order to facilitate the phases of Web Service requirements elicitation and specification. Furthermore, we introduce gherkin2OAS, a software tool that aspires to bridge the aforementioned development approaches. Through the suggested methodology and tool, one may design and build RESTful services fast, while ensuring proper functionality.

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A Natural Language Driven Approach for Automated Web API Development: Gherkin2OAS
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
    2. Software development techniques
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. API languages

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https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768824700713
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