Traditional organizations are increasingly becoming software producing organizations. This software is enabling them to integrate business processes between different departments and with other organizations through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The main task of managing APIs is to ensure that the APIs are easy to use by third parties, such as providing helpful documentation, monitoring API performance, and even monetizing API usage. The knowledge on API management is scattered across academic literature. In this document, we describe a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) that has the goal of collecting API Management practices and capabilities related to API Management, as well as proposing a comprehensive definition of the topic. In the scope of this work, a practice is defined as any practice that has the express goal to improve, encourage and manage the usage of APIs. Capabilities are defined as the ability to achieve a certain goal related to API Management, through the execution of two or more interrelated practices. We follow a standard method for SLRs in software engineering. We managed to collect 24 unique definitions for the topic, 114 practices and 39 capabilities.

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API 管理实践和能力的识别：系统文献综述

传统组织正日益成为软件生产组织。该软件使他们能够通过应用程序编程接口 (API) 在不同部门之间以及与其他组织之间集成业务流程。管理 API 的主要任务是确保 API 易于第三方使用，例如提供有用的文档、监控 API 性能，甚至通过 API 使用获利。API 管理的知识分散在学术文献中。在本文档中，我们描述了系统文献综述 (SLR)，其目标是收集与 API 管理相关的 API 管理实践和功能，并提出该主题的全面定义。在这项工作的范围内，实践被定义为任何具有改进目标的实践，鼓励和管理 API 的使用。能力被定义为通过执行两个或多个相互关联的实践来实现与 API 管理相关的特定目标的能力。我们遵循软件工程中 SLR 的标准方法。我们设法为该主题收集了 24 个独特的定义、114 个实践和 39 个功能。