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Large language models (LLMs) have limitations in handling tasks that require real-time access to external APIs. While several benchmarks like ToolBench and APIGen have been developed to assess LLMs' API-use capabilities, they often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Woojeong Kim , Ashish Jagmohan , Aditya Vempaty

Representational state transfer (REST) is a widely employed architecture by web applications and cloud. Users can invoke such services according to the specification of their application interfaces, namely RESTful APIs. Existing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jiaxian Lin , Tianyu Li , Yang Chen , Guangsheng Wei , Jiadong Lin , Sen Zhang , Hui Xu

Due to their widespread use in industry, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to fuzz REST APIs. Existing fuzzers for REST APIs have been focusing on detecting crashes (e.g., 500 HTTP server error status code). However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Modern software systems rely heavily on Web APIs, yet creating meaningful and executable test scripts remains a largely manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. In this paper, we present APITestGenie, a novel tool that leverages Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 André Pereira , Bruno Lima , João Pascoal Faria

Understanding the behaviour of a system's API can be hard. Giving users access to relevant examples of how an API behaves has been shown to make this easier for them. In addition, such examples can be used to verify expected behaviour or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Stefan Karlsson , John Hughes , Robbert Jongeling , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

As REST APIs become an increasingly significant part of software systems, their validation is becoming more critical. Hence, testing and uncovering underlying issues are of utmost importance for improving software quality. However, testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shehroz Khan , Abdullah Mughees , Gaadha Sudheerbabu , Tanwir Ahmad , Dragos Truscan

With the rise of software-as-a-service and microservice architectures, RESTful APIs are now ubiquitous in mobile and web applications. A service can have tens or hundreds of API methods, making it a challenge for programmers to find the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Zheng Guo , David Cao , Davin Tjong , Jean Yang , Cole Schlesinger , Nadia Polikarpova

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support software testing tasks, yet there is little evidence of their effectiveness for REST API testing in industrial settings. To address this gap, we replicate our earlier work on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tolgahan Bardakci , Andreas Faes , Mutlu Beyazit , Serge Demeyr

A good documentation is essential for a good usability of (security) APIs, i.e. especially for the correct use of the APIs. Requirements for good documentation of APIs have been described in several papers, but there is no technical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Rolf Huesmann , Alexander Zeier , Andreas Heinemann , Alexander Wiesmaier

Testing RESTful API is increasingly important in quality assurance of cloud-native applications. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have demonstrated that various testing activities can be performed automatically by large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoke Han , Hong Zhu

As science gateways are becoming an increasingly popular digital interface for scientific communities, it is also becoming increasingly important for High-Performance Computing centers to provide a modern Web-enabled APIs. With such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Felipe A. Cruz , Maxime Martinasso

An end-to-end platform for chemical science research has been developed that integrates data from computational and experimental approaches through a modern web-based interface. The platform offers a highly interactive visualization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Marcus D. Hanwell , Wibe A. de Jong , Christopher J. Harris

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) or Web Services are the foundational building blocks that enable interconnected systems. However this proliferation of APIs has also introduced security challenges that require systematic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Senthilkumar Gopal

In today's world, we need to ensure that AI systems are fair and unbiased. Our study looked at tools designed to test the fairness of software to see if they are practical and easy for software developers to use. We found that while some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Thanh Nguyen , Luiz Fernando de Lima , Maria Teresa Badassarre , Ronnie de Souza Santos

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yash Mahalwal , Pawel Pratyush , Yogesh Poonia

Intelligent services are becoming increasingly more pervasive; application developers want to leverage the latest advances in areas such as computer vision to provide new services and products to users, and large technology firms enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , Scott Barnett , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

In the contemporary landscape of technological advancements, the automation of manual processes is crucial, compelling the demand for huge datasets to effectively train and test machines. This research paper is dedicated to the exploration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-17 S Deepika Sri , Mohammed Aadil S , Sanjjushri Varshini R , Raja CSP Raman , Gopinath Rajagopal , S Taranath Chan

Producing secure software is challenging. The poor usability of security APIs makes this even harder. Many recommendations have been proposed to support developers by improving the usability of cryptography libraries and APIs; rooted in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Nikhil Patnaik , Andrew C. Dwyer , Joseph Hallett , Awais Rashid

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been advancing at a fast pace and it is now poised for deployment in a wide range of applications, such as autonomous systems, medical diagnosis and natural language processing. Early adoption of AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiyue Zhang

Consumption of REST services has become a popular means of invoking code provided by third parties, particularly in web applications. Nowadays programmers of web applications can choose TypeScript over JavaScript to benefit from static type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Nuno Burnay , Antónia Lopes , Vasco T. Vasconcelos