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Application services often support mobile and web applications with REST interfaces, implemented using a set of distributed components that interact with each other. This approach allows services to have high availability and performance at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Sara Simoes , Ana Ribeiro , Carla Ferreira , Nuno Preguica

REST HTTP is the communication protocol of choice for software developers today. In IoT systems with unreliable connectivity, however, a stateless protocol like REST HTTP needs to send a request message multiple times, and it only stops the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Cao Vien Phung , Jasenka Dizdarevic , Admela Jukan

REST is today's most widely used architectural style for providing web-based services. In the age of service-orientation (a.k.a. Software as a Service (SaaS)) APIs have become core business assets and can easily expose hundreds of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Sven Peldszus , Jan Rutenkolk , Marcel Heide , Jan Sollmann , Benjamin Klatt , Frank Köhne , Thorsten Berger

RESTful APIs are an increasingly common way to expose software systems functionality and it is therefore of high interest to find methods to automatically test and verify such APIs. To lower the barrier for industry adoption, such methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

Recent developments in the world of services on the Web show that both the number of available Web APIs as well as the applications built on top is constantly increasing. This trend is commonly attributed to the wide adoption of the REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Frederik Buelthoff , Maria Maleshkova

Assessing the effectiveness of REST API tests in black-box settings can be challenging due to the lack of access to source code coverage metrics and polyglot tech stack. We propose three metrics for capturing average, minimum, and maximum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nana Reinikainen , Mika Mäntylä , Yuqing Wang

REST APIs are prevalent among web service implementations, easing interoperability through the HTTP protocol. API testers and users exploit the widely adopted OpenAPI Specification (OAS), a machine-readable standard to document REST APIs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Alix Decrop , Xavier Devroey , Mike Papadakis , Pierre-Yves Schobbens , Gilles Perrouin

A few potential IoT communication protocols at the application layer have been proposed, including MQTT, CoAP and REST HTTP, with the latter being the protocol of choice for software developers due to its compatibility with the existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Cao Vien Phung , Mounir Bensalem , Admela Jukan

The idea of IoT world has grown to multiple dimensions enclosing different technologies and standards which can provide solutions and goal oriented intelligence to the widespread things via network or internet. In spite of different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Parthkumar Patel , Jayraj Dave , Shreedhar Dalal , Pankesh Patel , Sanjay Chaudhary

Test flakiness is a common problem in industry, which hinders the reliability of automated build and testing workflows. Most existing research on test flakiness has primarily focused on unit and small-scale integration tests. In contrast,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Man Zhang , Chongyang Shen , Andrea Arcuri , Tao Yue

RESTful APIs are a type of web services that are widely used in industry. In the last few years, a lot of effort in the research community has been spent in designing novel techniques to automatically fuzz those APIs to find faults in them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

With the growth of web applications, REST APIs have become the primary communication method between services. In order to ensure system reliability and security, software quality can be assured by effective testing methods. Black box fuzz…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Chung-Hsuan Tsai , Shi-Chun Tsai , Shih-Kun Huang

Background: Medical device development projects must follow proper directives and regulations to be able to market and sell the end-product in their respective territories. The regulations describe requirements that seem to be opposite to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Martin Forsberg Lie , Mary Sánchez-Gordón , Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

Cloud services have recently exploded with the advent of powerful cloud-computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Today, most cloud services are accessed through REST APIs, and Swagger is arguably the most popular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Vaggelis Atlidakis , Patrice Godefroid , Marina Polishchuk

REST API test case generation tools are evolving rapidly, with growing capabilities for the automated generation of complex tests. However, despite their strengths in test data generation, these tools are constrained by the types of test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Juan C. Alonso , Alberto Martin-Lopez , Sergio Segura , Gabriele Bavota , Antonio Ruiz-Cortés

REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs have become integral for data communication and exchange due to their simplicity, scalability, and compatibility with web standards. However, ensuring REST APIs' reliability through rigorous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tien-Quang Nguyen , Nghia-Hieu Cong , Ngoc-Minh Quach , Hieu Dinh Vo , Son Nguyen

As modern web services increasingly rely on REST APIs, their thorough testing has become crucial. Furthermore, the advent of REST API documentation languages, such as the OpenAPI Specification, has led to the emergence of many black-box…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Myeongsoo Kim , Tyler Stennett , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is considered as one standard software architectural style to build web APIs that can integrate software systems over the internet. However, while connecting systems, RESTful APIs might also break the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jerin Yasmin , Yuan Tian , Jinqiu Yang

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

As REST APIs have become widespread in modern web services, comprehensive testing of these APIs is increasingly crucial. Because of the vast search space of operations, parameters, and parameter values, along with their dependencies and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Tyler Stennett , Myeongsoo Kim , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso