Most people working with application programming interfaces (APIs) spend 29.5 percent their time on API coding and programming, according to a 2020 state of the API survey. Tasks like debugging and testing also take up a bulk of developers' time. An API is a software intermediary that enables applications to interact with each other. An API can be a web-based system, database system, etc.
Time allocation of application programming interface (API) tasks worldwide as of 2020
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Coding/programming APIs
29.5%
Debugging & manual testing
17%
Automated testing
10.8%
Designing & mock APIs
8.7%
API documentation
6.1%
Managing others who use APIs
5.8%
Meetings about API
5.7%
Collaborating on APIs
4.9%
API monitoring
4.3%
Publishing APIs
2.5%
Managing API artifacts
2.5%
Writing about APIs
2.2%
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