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    Efficient and Platform Independent CLI Tool for API Migration
    (Annual Conference 2017 - IET- Sri Lanka, 2017) Jayakody, A; Wijayaweera, V. P; Asbar, M. A. M
    Development organizations maintain separate environments for development, quality assurance and production etc. These environments execute independently and have their own deployment and own methods of traffic controlling that are handled locally. In such a process artefact allowed to be created only at development environment, tested in QA environment and then would promote to the production environment for promotion. In a API managing product company when moving API management products from one environment to another, all the created APIs need to migrate across different environments to save the developer time and effort at various environments. In order to achieve accurate and efficient migration, artefacts should be portable and transferable to any new environment without any major post migration changes and additional effort. In this paper, we present a more powerful, efficient and generalized CLI tool that can be used by any REST based API managing applications to perform API migration in a more precise manner. We analyzed the current migration techniques use by trending API Management products and identified the major sieve point that needed to be addressed. Taking those faults n to consideration we identified the appropriate mechanism to migrate APIs across different environments.
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    Efficient API Migration across Environments
    (2017) Jayakody, A; Perera, A. K. A; Perera, G. L. A. K. N; Wijayaweera, V. P; Ali, M. A. M. A
    Development organization maintain separate environments for development, quality assurance and production etc. These environments execute independently and have their deployments, and own methods of traffics controlling that are handled locally. Under such a process Application programming interface (API) artifacts allowed to be created only at development environment, tested in QA (Quality Assurance) environment and then would promote to the production environment prior releasing to the market. When moving API management products from one environment to another, all the created APIs need to migrate across different environments to test the exact functionality and behavior of the application. Purpose of this implemented tool is to minimize the effort and time in recreating APIs and facilitate the accurate and efficient migration across different environments without any major post migration changes and additional effort. Most of the API managing products as well as API publishers engaging with API imports and exports of APIs will be the beneficiary parties of this product. Firm analysis of the current migration techniques uses by trending API Management products reveled major sieve point that needed to be address. Final tool will be an executable file which can be plug and play via the command line interface. This tool can be used by any REST (Representational state transfer) based API managing applications without major configuration changes. Other than import and export functionality, tool equipped with built-in authentication mechanism to ensure the security of the publisher proprietary of the APIs, API subscription and single cluster deployment via minikube and Google cloud