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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

Serverless applications can be particularly difficult to troubleshoot, as these applications are often composed of various managed and partly managed services. Faults are often unpredictable and can occur at multiple points, even in simple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Maria C. Borges , Sebastian Werner , Ahmet Kilic

In industry, RESTful APIs are widely used to build modern Cloud Applications. Testing them is challenging, because not only they rely on network communications, but also they deal with external services like databases. Therefore, there has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Amid Golmohammadi , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

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

We consider the problem of generating relevant execution traces to test rich interactive applications. Rich interactive applications, such as apps on mobile platforms, are complex stateful and often distributed systems where sufficiently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Edmund S. L. Lam , Peilun Zhang , Bor-Yuh Evan Chang

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

The development of large, software-intensive systems is a complex undertaking that we generally tackle by a divide and conquer strategy. Companies thereby face the challenge of coordinating individual aspects of software development, in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek , Robert Feldt , Eriks Klotins

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

Nonparametric statistical tests are useful procedures that can be applied in a wide range of situations, such as testing randomness or goodness of fit, one-sample, two-sample and multiple-sample analysis, association between bivariate…

Computation · Statistics 2015-01-20 J. Derrac , S. García , F. Herrera

Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) applications often integrate various third-party healthcare applications and medical devices through REST APIs, resulting in complex and interdependent networks of REST APIs. Oslo City's healthcare…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Hassan Sartaj , Shaukat Ali , Julie Marie Gjøby

Various research domains use machine learning approaches because they can solve complex tasks by learning from data. Deploying machine learning models, however, is not trivial and developers have to implement complete solutions which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Oliver Neumann , Marcel Schilling , Markus Reischl , Ralf Mikut

This paper describes an implemented system which is designed to support the deployment of applications offering distributed services, comprising a number of distributed components. This is achieved by creating high level placement and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Alan Dearle , Graham Kirby , Andrew McCarthy , Juan-Carlos Diaz y Carballo

We present DiPerF, a distributed performance testing framework, aimed at simplifying and automating service performance evaluation. DiPerF coordinates a pool of machines that test a target service, collects and aggregates performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Catalin Dumitrescu , Ioan Raicu , Matei Ripeanu , Ian Foster

Software testing framework can be stated as the process of verifying and validating that a computer program/application works as expected and meets the requirements of the user. Usually testing can be done manually or using tools. Manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-07-15 K. Karnavel , V. Divya , Gnanakeerthika , P. Karthika

The rapid adoption of serverless computing necessitates a deeper understanding of its underlying operational mechanics, particularly concerning request routing, cold starts, function scaling, and resource management. This paper presents…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Dynamic analysis, through rehosting, is an important capability for security assessment in embedded systems software. Existing rehosting techniques aim to provide high-fidelity execution by accurately emulating hardware and peripheral…

With the surge in cloud storage adoption, enterprises face challenges managing data duplication and exponential data growth. Deduplication mitigates redundancy, yet maintaining redundancy ensures high availability, incurring storage costs.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Sabbir Ahmed , Md Nahiduzzaman , Tariqul Islam , Faisal Haque Bappy , Tarannum Shaila Zaman , Raiful Hasan

With the evolution of microservice applications, the underlying architectures have become increasingly complex compared to their monolith counterparts. This mainly brings in the challenge of observability. By providing a deeper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Thrivikraman V , Vishnu R. Dixit , Nikhil Ram S , Vikas K. Gowda , Santhosh Kumar Vasudevan , Subramaniam Kalambur

In this paper, we introduce Zest (REST over ZeroMQ), a middleware technology in support of an Internet of Things (IoT). Our work is influenced by the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) but emphasises systems that can support…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-20 John Moore , Andrés Arcia-Moret , Poonam Yadav , Richard Mortier , Anthony Brown , Derek McAuley , Andy Crabtree , Chris Greenhalgh , Hamed Haddadi , Yousef Amar

We initiate a thorough study of \emph{distributed property testing} -- producing algorithms for the approximation problems of property testing in the CONGEST model. In particular, for the so-called \emph{dense} testing model we emulate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Eldar Fischer , Gregory Schwartzman , Yadu Vasudev