Supporting software application developers to iteratively refine requirements for web application programing interfaces

A computer system for providing Web API recommendations for a context of an application, the computer system comprising:

• a bus system;
• a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device stores program instructions;
• and
• a processor connected to the bus system, wherein the processor executes the program instructions to:
• send a ranked list of recommended Web APIs and a set of Web API recommendations regarding the context of the application to a client device via a network;
• add a selected set of Web APIs to the context of the application to generate a new context of the application in response to determining that a selection of a set of Web APIs in the ranked list of recommended Web APIs was received;
• and
• send a display of a relationship among the set of added Web APIs to the new context of the application to the client device via the network.

A computer program product for providing Web API recommendations for a context of an application, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

• sending, by a computer, a ranked list of recommended Web APIs and a set of Web API recommendations regarding the context of the application to a client device via a network;
• responsive to the computer determining that a selection of a set of Web APIs in the ranked list of recommended Web APIs was received, adding, by the computer, the selected set of Web APIs to the context of the application to generate a new context of the application;
• and
• sending, by the computer, a display of a relationship among the set of added Web APIs added to the new context of the application to the client device via the network.