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Modern web services routinely provide REST APIs for clients to access their functionality. These APIs present unique challenges and opportunities for automated testing, driving the recent development of many techniques and tools that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Myeongsoo Kim , Qi Xin , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

Recent developments in the world of services on the Web show that both the number of available Web APIs as well as the applications built on top is constantly increasing. This trend is commonly attributed to the wide adoption of the REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Frederik Buelthoff , Maria Maleshkova

RESTful APIs are a type of web services that are widely used in industry. In the last few years, a lot of effort in the research community has been spent in designing novel techniques to automatically fuzz those APIs to find faults in them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Nowadays, web services play a major role in the development of enterprise applications. Many such applications are now developed using a service-oriented architecture (SOA), where microservices is one of its most popular kind. A RESTful web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Andrea Arcuri

Modern web services increasingly rely on REST APIs. Effectively testing these APIs is challenging due to the vast search space to be explored, which involves selecting API operations for sequence creation, choosing parameters for each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Myeongsoo Kim , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

The focus of this paper is on automating the security testing of RESTful APIs. The testing stage of this specific kind of components is often performed manually, and this is yet considered as a long and difficult activity. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Sebastien Salva , Jarod Sue

A common way of exposing functionality in contemporary systems is by providing a Web-API based on the REST API architectural guidelines. To describe REST APIs, the industry standard is currently OpenAPI-specifications. Test generation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Stefan Karlsson , Robbert Jongeling , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

REST APIs (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces) are an indispensable building block in today's cloud-native applications, so testing them is critically important. However, writing automated tests for such REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tolgahan Bardakci , Serge Demeyer , Mutlu Beyazit

Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) applications require rigorous testing to ensure their dependability. Such applications are typically integrated with various third-party healthcare applications and medical devices through REST APIs. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Hassan Sartaj , Shaukat Ali , Tao Yue , Kjetil Moberg

RESTful APIs are arguably the most popular endpoints for accessing Web services. Blackbox testing is one of the emerging techniques for ensuring the reliability of RESTful APIs. The major challenge in testing RESTful APIs is the need for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yi Liu , Yuekang Li , Gelei Deng , Yang Liu , Ruiyuan Wan , Runchao Wu , Dandan Ji , Shiheng Xu , Minli Bao

REST is today's most widely used architectural style for providing web-based services. In the age of service-orientation (a.k.a. Software as a Service (SaaS)) APIs have become core business assets and can easily expose hundreds of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Sven Peldszus , Jan Rutenkolk , Marcel Heide , Jan Sollmann , Benjamin Klatt , Frank Köhne , Thorsten Berger

Cloud services have recently exploded with the advent of powerful cloud-computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Today, most cloud services are accessed through REST APIs, and Swagger is arguably the most popular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Vaggelis Atlidakis , Patrice Godefroid , Marina Polishchuk

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has aroused much attention among both industrial and academic areas. However, building and maintaining efficient AI systems are quite difficult for many small business companies and researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Lu Xu , Yating Wang

RESTful APIs are an increasingly common way to expose software systems functionality and it is therefore of high interest to find methods to automatically test and verify such APIs. To lower the barrier for industry adoption, such methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

REST APIs (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces) play a vital role in modern cloud-native applications. As these APIs grow in complexity and scale, ensuring their correctness and robustness becomes increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Robbe Nooyens , Tolgahan Bardakci , Mutlu Beyazit , Serge Demeyer

REST APIs have a pivotal role in accessing protected resources. Despite the availability of security testing tools, mass assignment vulnerabilities are common in REST APIs, leading to unauthorized manipulation of sensitive data. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arash Mazidi , Davide Corradini , Mohammad Ghafari

There are around 5.3 billion Internet users, amounting to 65.7% of the global population, and web technology is the backbone of the services delivered via the Internet. To ensure web applications are free from security-related bugs, web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 I Putu Arya Dharmaadi , Elias Athanasopoulos , Fatih Turkmen

Test coverage is a standard measure used to evaluate the completeness of a test suite. Coverage is typically computed on source code, by assessing the extent of source code entities (e.g., statements, data dependencies, control…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Davide Corradini , Amedeo Zampieri , Michele Pasqua , Mariano Ceccato

With the growth of web applications, REST APIs have become the primary communication method between services. In order to ensure system reliability and security, software quality can be assured by effective testing methods. Black box fuzz…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Chung-Hsuan Tsai , Shi-Chun Tsai , Shih-Kun Huang

Several studies analyzed existing Web APIs against the constraints of REST to estimate the degree of REST compliance among state-of-the-art APIs. These studies revealed that only a small number of Web APIs are truly RESTful. Moreover,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sebastian Kotstein , Justus Bogner
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