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Purpose: The query language GraphQL has gained significant traction in recent years. In particular, it has recently gained the attention of the semantic web and graph database communities and is now often used as a means to query knowledge…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Nikolaos Karalis , Alexander Bigerl , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yanjing Yang , Chenxing Zhong , Ke Han , Zeru Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Bohan Liu

Recently efficient model-checking tools have been developed to find flaws in security protocols specifications. These flaws can be interpreted as potential attacks scenarios but the feasability of these scenarios need to be confirmed at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Hatem Ghabri , Ghazi Maatoug , Michael Rusinowitch

Most methods for explaining black-box classifiers (e.g. on tabular data, images, or time series) rely on measuring the impact that removing/perturbing features has on the model output. This forces the explanation language to match the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Alan Perotti , Paolo Bajardi , Francesco Bonchi , André Panisson

Generating tests that can reveal performance issues in large and complex software systems within a reasonable amount of time is a challenging task. On one hand, there are numerous combinations of input data values to explore. On the other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ali Sedaghatbaf , Mahshid Helali Moghadam , Mehrdad Saadatmand

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…

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Language model attacks typically assume one of two extreme threat models: full white-box access to model weights, or black-box access limited to a text generation API. However, real-world APIs are often more flexible than just text…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Kellin Pelrine , Mohammad Taufeeque , Michał Zając , Euan McLean , Adam Gleave

Automated test generation has become a key technique for ensuring software quality, particularly in modern API-based architectures. However, automatically generated test cases are typically assigned non-descriptive names (e.g., test0,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Philip Garrett , Juan P. Galeotti , Andrea Arcuri , Alexander Poth , Olsi Rrjolli

White-box test generator tools rely only on the code under test to select test inputs, and capture the implementation's output as assertions. If there is a fault in the implementation, it could get encoded in the generated tests. Tool…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-21 David Honfi , Zoltan Micskei

Graph database query languages cannot express algorithms like PageRank, forcing costly data wrangling, while existing solutions such as algorithm libraries, vertex-centric APIs, and recursive CTEs lack the necessary combination of…

Quality Assurance (QA) is a critical component in product development, particularly in software testing. Despite the evolution of automated methods, testing for REST APIs often involves repetitive tasks. A significant portion of resources…

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Provenance analysis (PA) has recently emerged as an important solution for cyber attack investigation. PA leverages system monitoring to monitor system activities as a series of system audit events and organizes these events as a provenance…

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Perception of toxicity evolves over time and often differs between geographies and cultural backgrounds. Similarly, black-box commercially available APIs for detecting toxicity, such as the Perspective API, are not static, but frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Luiza Pozzobon , Beyza Ermis , Patrick Lewis , Sara Hooker

Black-box tuning is an emerging paradigm for adapting large language models (LLMs) to better achieve desired behaviors, particularly when direct access to model parameters is unavailable. Current strategies, however, often present a dilemma…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Zhikang Xie , Weilin Wan , Peizhu Gong , Weizhong Zhang , Cheng Jin

A systematic, language-independent method of finding a minimal set of paths covering the code of a sequential program is proposed for application in White Box testing. Execution of all paths from the set ensures also statement coverage.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hanna Makaruk , Robert Owczarek , Nikita Sakhanenko

Docker has gained attention as a lightweight container-based virtualization platform. The process for building a Docker image is defined in a text file called a Dockerfile. A Dockerfile can be considered as a kind of source code that…

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We introduce PathQuery, a graph query language developed to scale with Google's query and data volumes as well as its internal developer community. PathQuery supports flexible and declarative semantics. We have found that this enables query…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jesse Weaver , Eric Paniagua , Tushar Agarwal , Nicholas Guy , Alexandre Mattos

Graph analysis is fundamental in real-world applications. Traditional approaches rely on SPARQL-like languages or clicking-and-dragging interfaces to interact with graph data. However, these methods either require users to possess high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yun Peng , Sen Lin , Qian Chen , Lyu Xu , Xiaojun Ren , Yafei Li , Jianliang Xu

Large language models (LLMs) like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have emerged as powerful tools for code generation, significantly enhancing productivity and accelerating software development. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yixi Wu , Pengfei He , Zehao Wang , Shaowei Wang , Yuan Tian , Tse-Hsun Chen

OCaml is an industrial-strength, multi-paradigm programming language, widely used in industry and academia. OCaml was developed for solving numerical and scientific problems involving large scale data-intensive operations and one such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shubhendra Pal Singhal