API Management Practices and Patterns for Public, Partner, and Group Web APIs with a Focus on Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration

Public, partner, and group Web APIs are strategic resources that enable organizations to realize new business models, become platform providers, or integrate partners efficiently. Since Web APIs are resources at the interface between the API provider team and stakeholders inside and outside the API provider organization, API management is an inherently collaborative organizational function. Therefore, we present best practices for code examples in Web API documentation and API management patterns, focusing on collaboration.