num_pages: 472
description: API Design for C provides a comprehensive discussion of Application Programming Interface (API) development from initial design through implementation testing documentation release versioning maintenance and deprecation. It is the only book that teaches the strategies of C API development including interface design versioning scripting and plug-in extensibility. Drawing from the author's experience on large scale collaborative software projects the text offers practical techniques of API design that produce robust code for the long term. It presents patterns and practices that provide real value to individual developers as well as organizations.API Design for C explores often overlooked issues both technical and non-technical contributing to successful design decisions that product high quality robust and long-lived APIs. It focuses on various API styles and patterns that will allow you to produce elegant and durable libraries. A discussion on testing strategies concentrates on automated API testing techniques rather than attempting to include end-user application testing techniques such as GUI testing system testing or manual testing. Each concept is illustrated with extensive C code examples and fully functional examples and working source code for experimentation are available online.This book will be helpful to new programmers who understand the fundamentals of C and who want to advance their design skills as well as to senior engineers and software architects seeking to gain new expertise to complement their existing talents. Three specific groups of readers are targeted: practicing software engineers and architects technical managers and students and educators.
language: English
title: API Design for C++
publisher: Morgan Kaufmann