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API testing has increasing demands for software companies. Prior API testing tools were aware of certain types of dependencies that needed to be concise between operations and parameters. However, their approaches, which are mostly done…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tri Le , Thien Tran , Duy Cao , Vy Le , Tien Nguyen , Vu Nguyen

Due to its importance and widespread use in industry, automated testing of REST APIs has attracted major interest from the research community in the last few years. However, most of the work in the literature has been focused on black-box…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Andrea Arcuri , Man Zhang , Juan Pablo Galeotti

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

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

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

Automated test generation has become a key technique for ensuring software quality, particularly in modern API-based architectures. However, automatically generated test cases are typically assigned non-descriptive names (e.g., test0,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Philip Garrett , Juan P. Galeotti , Andrea Arcuri , Alexander Poth , Olsi Rrjolli

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

Automated software testing has significant potential to enhance efficiency and reliability within software development processes. However, its broader adoption faces considerable challenges, particularly concerning alignment between test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Fanyu Wang , Chetan Arora , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Kaicheng Huang , Aldeida Aleti

Continuous integration testing is an important step in the modern software engineering life cycle. Test prioritization is a method that can improve the efficiency of continuous integration testing by selecting test cases that can detect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Aizaz Sharif , Dusica Marijan , Marius Liaaen

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

Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (e.g., how to parse XML files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural language query is very helpful in this regard. Given a query,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Xiaodong Gu , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Sunghun Kim

In API testing, deriving logical constraints on API response bodies to be used as oracles is crucial for generating test cases and performing automated testing of RESTful APIs. However, existing approaches are restricted to dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Hieu Huynh , Tri Le , Tu Nguyen , Viet Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Tien N. Nguyen

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNN) have become a highly active area of research, and shown remarkable achievements on a variety of computer vision tasks. DNNs, however, are known to often make overconfident yet incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jae Myung Kim , Hyungjin Kim , Chanwoo Park , Jungwoo Lee

In RESTful APIs, interactions with a database are a common and crucial aspect. When generating whitebox tests, it is essential to consider the database's state (i.e., the data contained in the database) to achieve higher code coverage and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hernan Ghianni , Man Zhang , Juan P. Galeotti , Andrea Arcuri

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

The effective execution of tests for REST APIs remains a considerable challenge for development teams, driven by the inherent complexity of distributed systems, the multitude of possible scenarios, and the limited time available for test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Thiago Barradas , Aline Paes , Vânia de Oliveira Neves

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

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yanjing Yang , Chenxing Zhong , Ke Han , Zeru Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Bohan Liu

This master thesis describes an algorithm for automated categorization of scientific documents using deep learning techniques and compares the results to the results of existing classification algorithms. As an additional goal a reusable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Thomas Krause

We consider the challenging problem of high speed autonomous racing in a realistic Formula One environment. DeepRacing is a novel end-to-end framework, and a virtual testbed for training and evaluating algorithms for autonomous racing. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Trent Weiss , Madhur Behl