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Automated test generation (ATG), which aims to reduce the cost of manual test suite development, has been investigated for decades and has produced countless techniques based on a variety of approaches: symbolic analysis, search-based,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rangeet Pan , Tyler Stennett , Raju Pavuluri , Nate Levin , Alessandro Orso , Saurabh Sinha

E2E web test suites are prone to test dependencies due to the heterogeneous multi-tiered nature of modern web apps, which makes it difficult for developers to create isolated program states for each test case. In this paper, we present the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Matteo Biagiola , Andrea Stocco , Ali Mesbah , Filippo Ricca , Paolo Tonella

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in machine translation, but they still struggle with contextually dependent terms, such as new or domain-specific words. This leads to inconsistencies and errors that are difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Meiqi Chen , Fandong Meng , Yingxue Zhang , Yan Zhang , Jie Zhou

RESTful APIs are central in developing interoperable, modular, and maintainable software systems in enterprises today. Also, it is essential to support system evolution, service interoperability, and governance across organizational…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Edwin Sundberg , Thea Ekmark , Workneh Yilma Ayele

Test automation involves the automatic execution of test scripts instead of being manually run. This significantly reduces the amount of manual effort needed and thus is of great interest to the software testing industry. There are two key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Anurag Dwarakanath , Dipin Era , Aditya Priyadarshi , Neville Dubash , Sanjay Podder

AI tasks encompass a wide range of domains and fields. While numerous AI models have been designed for specific tasks and applications, they often require considerable human efforts in finding the right model architecture, optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Shujian Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Lemeng Wu , Xingchao Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

Software testing remains critical for ensuring reliability, yet traditional approaches are slow, costly, and prone to gaps in coverage. This paper presents an AI-driven framework that automates test case generation and validation using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar

This research introduces graph analysis methods and a modified Graph Attention Convolutional Neural Network (GAT) to the critical challenge of open source package vulnerability remediation by analyzing control flow graphs to profile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Fernando Vera , Palina Pauliuchenka , Ethan Oh , Bai Chien Kao , Louis DiValentin , David A. Bader

The integration of open-source third-party library dependencies in Java development introduces significant security risks when these libraries contain known vulnerabilities. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wang Lingxiang , Quanzhi Fu , Wenjia Song , Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Dan Williams , Ying Zhang

Random testing (RT) is a black-box software testing technique that tests programs by generating random test inputs. It is a widely used technique for software quality assurance, but there has been much debate by practitioners concerning its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jinfu Chen , Hilary Ackah-Arthur , Chengying Mao , Patrick Kwaku Kudjo

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

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) leverage external tools primarily through generating the API request to enhance task completion efficiency. The accuracy of API request generation significantly determines the capability of LLMs to accomplish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Huanxi Liu , Jiaqi Liao , Dawei Feng , Kele Xu , Huaimin Wang

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI), specifically large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used in software engineering, mainly for coding tasks. However, requirements engineering - particularly requirements validation - has seen…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Adam Trendowicz , Daniel Seifert , Andreas Jedlitschka , Marcus Ciolkowski , Anton Strahilov

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly through the advent of large-scale generative AI (GenAI) models such as Large Language Models (LLMs), has become a transformative element in contemporary technology. While these models have unlocked…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Boming Xia , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Sung Une Lee , Yue Liu , Zhenchang Xing

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

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is how users interact with mobile apps. To ensure it functions properly, testing engineers have to make sure it functions as intended, based on test requirements that are typically written in natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yongxiang Hu , Xuan Wang , Yingchuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Shiyu Guo , Chaoyi Chen , Xin Wang , Yangfan Zhou

Red teaming assesses how large language models (LLMs) can produce content that violates norms, policies, and rules set during their safety training. However, most existing automated methods in the literature are not representative of the…

Software developers study and reuse existing source code to understand how to properly use application programming interfaces (APIs). However, manually finding sufficient and adequate code examples for a given API is a difficult and a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mohammad Ghafari , Konstantin Rubinov , Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem K

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the evaluation and validation of generative language models (GLMs), with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems deployed in high-stakes domains such as banking. GLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Agus Sudjianto , Aijun Zhang , Srinivas Neppalli , Tarun Joshi , Michal Malohlava