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Stakeholders of configurable systems are often interested in knowing how configuration options influence the performance of a system to facilitate, for example, the debugging and optimization processes of these systems. Several black-box…

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Remote procedure call (RPC) is the backbone of many modern distributed systems. Google's gRPC is one of the most popular open source RPC frameworks available in the community. gRPC is the main communication engine for Google's Deep Learning…

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In most process control systems nowadays, process measurements are periodically collected and archived in historians. Analytics applications process the data, and provide results offline or in a time period that is considerably slow in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Song Han , Tao Gong , Mark Nixon , Eric Rotvold , Kam-yiu Lam , Krithi Ramamritham

Fuzzing -- testing programs with random inputs -- has become the prime technique to detect bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. To generate inputs that cover new functionality, fuzzers require execution feedback from the program -- for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rahul Gopinath , Bachir Bendrissou , Björn Mathis , Andreas Zeller

Information leakage is a class of error that can lead to severe consequences. However unlike other errors, it is rarely explicitly considered during the software testing process. LeakFuzzer advances the state of the art by using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

Protocol fuzzing is a scalable and cost-effective technique for identifying security vulnerabilities in deployed Internet of Things devices. During their operational phase, IoT devices often run lightweight servers to handle user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Priyanka Rushikesh Chaudhary , Rajib Ranjan Maiti

Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight testing approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities. However, greybox fuzzers randomly mutate program inputs to exercise new paths; this makes it challenging to cover code that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

This article presents a free and open source toolkit that supports the semi-automated checking of research outputs (SACRO) for privacy disclosure within secure data environments. SACRO is a framework that applies best-practice…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Richard J. Preen , Maha Albashir , Simon Davy , Jim Smith

Fuzzing is a popular bug detection technique achieved by testing software executables with random inputs. This technique can also be extended to libraries by constructing executables that call library APIs, known as fuzz drivers. Automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yehong Zhang , Jun Wu , Hui Xu

We present Bencher, a modular benchmarking framework for black-box optimization that fundamentally decouples benchmark execution from optimization logic. Unlike prior suites that focus on combining many benchmarks in a single project,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Leonard Papenmeier , Luigi Nardi

BusyBox is one of the most widely reused userland components in Linux-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) firmware, yet its security assessment remains difficult because firmware images are frequently stripped, vendor patch practices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yinhao Xiao , Huixi Li , Yongluo Shen

Smart TVs are coming to dominate the television market. This accompanied by an increase in the use of smart TV applications (apps). Due to the increasing demand, developers need modeling techniques to analyze these apps and assess their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Miroslav Bures

AI assistants can decompose multi-step workflows, but they do not natively speak industrial protocols such as Modbus, MQTT/Sparkplug B, or OPC UA, so this paper presents INDUSTRICONNECT, a prototype suite of Model Context Protocol (MCP)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Melwin Xavier , Melveena Jolly , Vaisakh M A , Midhun Xavier

Cloud applications heavily rely on APIs to communicate with each other and exchange data. To ensure the reliability of cloud applications, cloud providers widely adopt API testing techniques. Unfortunately, existing API testing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia Li , Jiacheng Shen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Harrison Green , Fraser Brown , Claire Le Goues

Processor designs rely on iterative modifications and reuse well-established designs. However, this reuse of prior designs also leads to similar vulnerabilities across multiple processors. As processors grow increasingly complex with…

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The Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) collects, curates, and manages data related to cancer patients in Norway, supported by an interactive, human-in-the-loop, socio-technical decision support software system. Automated software testing of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Christoph Laaber , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali , Thomas Schwitalla , Jan F. Nygård

Verification is a critical process for ensuring the correctness of modern processors. The increasing complexity of processor designs and the emergence of new instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V have created demands for more…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Zhong , Haoran Wu , Xueqi Li , Sa Wang , David Boland , Yungang Bao , Kan Shi

Performance in heterogeneous service-based systems shows non-determistic trends. Even for the same request type, latency may vary from one request to another. These variations can occur due to several reasons on different levels of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Vittorio Cortellessa , Luca Traini

Today, there are millions of third-party Android applications. Some of these applications are buggy or even malicious. To identify such applications, novel frameworks for automated black-box testing and dynamic analysis are being developed…

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