concept API goal canvas in category api

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2.3.5 Using the API goals canvas

Now that we know which questions to ask and why we must ask them in order to identify an API’s comprehensive and precise list of goals, let’s see how we can handle this investigative process with an API goals canvas, as shown in figure 2.14.

Figure 2.14 The API goals canvas

The API goals canvas is nothing more than a table composed of six columns, matching the process we have discovered through the previous sections: