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The effective execution of tests for REST APIs remains a considerable challenge for development teams, driven by the inherent complexity of distributed systems, the multitude of possible scenarios, and the limited time available for test…

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REST APIs enable collaboration among microservices. A single fault in a REST API can bring down the entire microservice system and cause significant financial losses, underscoring the importance of REST API testing. Effectively testing REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ding Yang , Ruixiang Qian , Zhao Wei , Zhenyu Chen , Chunrong Fang

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a standard interface through which LLM agents invoke external tools, and a growing ecosystem of MCP servers now mediates access to vendor services. Most of these servers target vendors that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Meriem Mastouri , Emna Ksontini , Amine Barrak , Wael Kessentini

Runtime failures are commonplace in modern distributed systems. When such issues arise, users often turn to platforms such as Github or JIRA to report them and request assistance. Automatically identifying the root cause of these failures…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yichen Li , Yulun Wu , Jinyang Liu , Zhihan Jiang , Zhuangbin Chen , Guangba Yu , Michael R. Lyu

Hierarchical clustering is one of the most powerful solutions to the problem of clustering, on the grounds that it performs a multi scale organization of the data. In recent years, research on hierarchical clustering methods has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Antonia Korba

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to build autonomous agents that perform complex tasks with external tools, often exposed through APIs in enterprise systems. Direct use of these APIs is difficult due to the complex input…

Developers often need to decide which APIs to use for the functions being implemented. With the ever-growing number of APIs and libraries, it becomes increasingly difficult for developers to find appropriate APIs, indicating the necessity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yujia Chen , Xiaoxue Ren , Cuiyun Gao , Yun Peng , Xin Xia , Michael R. Lyu

This paper presents a novel approach to represent enterprise web application structures using Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable intelligent quality engineering at scale. We introduce a hierarchical representation methodology that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zaber Al Hassan Ayon , Gulam Husain , Roshankumar Bisoi , Waliur Rahman , Dr Tom Osborn

Modern web services rely heavily on REST APIs, typically documented using the OpenAPI specification. The widespread adoption of this standard has resulted in the development of many black-box testing tools that generate tests based on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Myeongsoo Kim , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) is one of the oldest but still most widely used clustering methods. However, HAC is notoriously hard to scale to large data sets as the underlying complexity is at least quadratic in the number of…

Deep models have driven significant advances in click-through rate (CTR) prediction. While vertical scaling via layer stacking improves model expressiveness, the layer-by-layer sequential computation poses challenges to efficient scaling.…

The quadratic computational complexity of MultiHead SelfAttention (MHSA) remains a fundamental bottleneck in scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) for longcontext tasks. While sparse and linearized attention mechanisms attempt to mitigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Caner Erden

REpresentation State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing web applications that enable scalable, stateless communication between clients and servers via common HTTP techniques. Web APIs that employ the REST style are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sida Deng , Rubing Huang , Man Zhang , Chenhui Cui , Dave Towey , Rongcun Wang

In API testing, deriving logical constraints on API response bodies to be used as oracles is crucial for generating test cases and performing automated testing of RESTful APIs. However, existing approaches are restricted to dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Hieu Huynh , Tri Le , Tu Nguyen , Viet Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Tien N. Nguyen

In High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures, the control of resources by batch systems can lead to prolonged queue waiting times and adverse effects on the overall execution times of applications, particularly in data-intensive and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Abel Souza , Kristiaan Pelckmans , Devarshi Ghoshal , Lavanya Ramakrishnan , Johan Tordsson

The widespread adoption of REST APIs, coupled with their growing complexity and size, has led to the need for automated REST API testing tools. Current tools focus on the structured data in REST API specifications but often neglect valuable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Myeongsoo Kim , Tyler Stennett , Dhruv Shah , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

This paper presents an extended version of Deeper, a search-based simulation-integrated test solution that generates failure-revealing test scenarios for testing a deep neural network-based lane-keeping system. In the newly proposed…

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in general domains, their reliability often falls short in scientific problem-solving. The advancement of scientific AI depends on large-scale, high-quality corpora. However, existing scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 You-Le Fang , Dong-Shan Jian , Xiang Li , Ce Meng , Ling-Shi Meng , Chen-Xu Yan , Zhi-Zhang Bian , Yan-Qing Ma

Hierarchical clustering (HC) is an important data analysis technique in which the goal is to recursively partition a dataset into a tree-like structure while grouping together similar data points at each level of granularity. Unfortunately,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Vladimir Braverman , Jon C. Ergun , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

Automated test case generation is an effective technique to yield high-coverage test suites. While the majority of research effort has been devoted to satisfying coverage criteria, a recent trend emerged towards optimizing other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Giovanni Grano , Christoph Laaber , Annibale Panichella , Sebastiano Panichella