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Optimizing and maintaining up-to-date API documentation is a challenging problem for evolving OpenAPIs. In this poster, we propose a data-driven continuous optimization solution and multilingual SDK generation scheme to improve the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

REpresentation State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing web applications that enable scalable, stateless communication between clients and servers via common HTTP techniques. Web APIs that employ the REST style are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sida Deng , Rubing Huang , Man Zhang , Chenhui Cui , Dave Towey , Rongcun Wang

Microservice architectures are an emergent technology that builds business logic into a suite of small services. Each microservice runs in its process and the communication is made through lightweight mechanisms, usually HTTP resource API.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ana Catarina Ribeiro

Sequence-based specification and usage-driven statistical testing are designed for rigorous and cost-effective software development, offering a semi-formal approach to assessing the behavior of complex systems and interactions between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seth Wolfgang , Lan Lin , Fengguang Song

REST APIs, based on the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architecture, are the primary type of Web API. The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) serves as the de facto standard for describing REST APIs and is crucial for multiple software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hao Chen , Yunchun Li , Chen Chen , Fengxu Lin , Wei Li

Language models have shown promising performance on the task of translating natural language questions into SQL queries (Text-to-SQL). However, most of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches rely on powerful yet closed-source large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Haoyang Li , Jing Zhang , Hanbing Liu , Ju Fan , Xiaokang Zhang , Jun Zhu , Renjie Wei , Hongyan Pan , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Quality requirements typically differ among software features, e.g., due to different usage contexts of the features, different impacts of related quality deficiencies onto overall user satisfaction, or long-term plans of the developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Philipp Haindl , Reinhold Plösch

Search-based software testing (SBT) is an effective and efficient approach for testing automated driving systems (ADS). However, testing pipelines for ADS testing are particularly challenging as they involve integrating complex driving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Lev Sorokin , Tiziano Munaro , Damir Safin , Brian Hsuan-Cheng Liao , Adam Molin

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

DevSecOps is a software development paradigm that places a high emphasis on the culture of collaboration between developers (Dev), security (Sec) and operations (Ops) teams to deliver secure software continuously and rapidly. Adopting this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Roshan Namal Rajapakse , Mansooreh Zahedi , Muhammad Ali Babar

Writing a platform for reactive applications which enforces operational constraints is difficult, and has been approached in various ways. In this experience report, we detail an approach using an embedded DSL which can be used to specify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Paul van der Walt

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

We present DAPIP, a Programming-By-Example system that learns to program with APIs to perform data transformation tasks. We design a domain-specific language (DSL) that allows for arbitrary concatenations of API outputs and constant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Surya Bhupatiraju , Rishabh Singh , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Pushmeet Kohli

The given paper presents an overview of modern RESTful API description languages (belongs to interface description languages set) - OpenAPI, RAML, WADL, Slate - designed to provide a structured description of a RESTful web APIs (that is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kyrylo Malakhov , Oleksandr Kurgaev , Vitalii Velychko

Developers require accurate descriptions of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a successful interaction between web services. The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) has become the de facto standard…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Alexander Lercher , Christian Macho , Clemens Bauer , Martin Pinzger

This paper describes an approach to creating textual syntax for Do- main-Specific Languages (DSL). We consider target meta-model to be the main artifact and hence to be developed first. The key idea is to represent analysis of textual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-01-09 Andrey Breslav

In the open source software (OSS) ecosystem, there exists a complex software supply chain, where developers upstream and downstream widely borrow and reuse code. This results in the widespread occurrence of recurring defects, missing fixes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Fuwei Wang , Yongzhi Liu , Zhiqiang Dong

While the ASAM OpenSCENARIO 2.1 Domain-Specific Language (DSL) enables declarative, intent-driven authoring for Scenario-Based Testing (SBT), its integration into open-source simulators like CARLA remains limited by legacy parsers. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thoshitha Gamage , Lasanthi Gamage

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

This paper proposes a relational constraint driven technique that synthesizes test cases automatically for web applications. Using a static analysis, servlets can be modeled as relational transducers, which manipulate backend databases. We…

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