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The API performance contract

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How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 3
March 2014
99 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2566590
  • Editor:
  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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