6.2.6. Stability status per web API feature
As a web API provider, tagging each of your web API’s features with a “stability status” which indicates whether a feature is stable for production use or instead it is alpha/beta is welcomed by the interviewed developers. This way, developers aiming for stability are able to know which features to be wary of. This recommendation can also be the starting step for further investigation on automatically determining the stability status of a feature through e.g., repository mining techniques or unstructured data mining of bug trackers