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GraphQL's flexible query model and nested data dependencies expose APIs to complex, context-dependent vulnerabilities that are difficult to uncover using conventional testing tools. Existing fuzzers either rely on random payload generation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shaolun Liu , Sina Marefat , Omar Tsai , Yu Chen , Zecheng Deng , Jia Wang , Mohammad A. Tayebi

GraphQL's flexibility, while beneficial for efficient data fetching, introduces unique security vulnerabilities that traditional API security mechanisms often fail to address. Malicious GraphQL queries can exploit the language's dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Irash Perera , Hiranya Abeyrathne , Sanjeewa Malalgoda , Arshardh Ifthikar

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime to execute queries. Using GraphQL queries, clients define precisely what data they wish to retrieve or mutate on a server, leading to fewer round trips and reduced response sizes. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Erik Wittern , Alan Cha , James C. Davis , Guillaume Baudart , Louis Mandel

The landscape of web APIs is evolving to meet new client requirements and to facilitate how providers fulfill them. A recent web API model is GraphQL, which is both a query language and a runtime. Using GraphQL, client queries express the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alan Cha , Erik Wittern , Guillaume Baudart , James C. Davis , Louis Mandel , Jim A. Laredo

GraphQL provides a schema-based, strongly typed query language that enables highly efficient client-server communication. This paper introduces GraphQLify, an automated framework designed to migrate existing REST APIs to GraphQL. Unlike…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Saleh Amareen , Arif Rahman , Sazzadur Rahaman , Amiangshu Bosu

GraphQL is a query language and web application programming interface (API) for client-server architecture. Its advantages include type-safe queries, which allow clients to retrieve the data they require precisely in a single request. As…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Saleh Amareen , Obed Soto Dector , Ali Dado , Amiangshu Bosu

The Graph Query Language (GraphQL) is a powerful language for APIs manipulation in web services. It has been recently introduced as an alternative solution for addressing the limitations of RESTful APIs. This paper introduces an automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Asma Belhadi , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

GraphQL is a new paradigm to design web APIs. Despite its growing popularity, there are few techniques to verify the implementation of a GraphQL API. We present a new testing approach based on GraphQL queries that are logged while users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Louise Zetterlund , Deepika Tiwari , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

GraphQL is a query language and thereupon-based paradigm for implementing web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for client-server interactions. Using GraphQL, clients define precise, nested data-requirements in typed queries, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Erik Wittern , Alan Cha , Jim A. Laredo

In recent years, GraphQL has become a popular way to expose web APIs. With its raise of adoption in industry, the quality of GraphQL APIs must be also assessed, as with any part of a software system, and preferably in an automated manner.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Čaušević , Daniel Sundmark

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries, fetching the requested data from existing microservices, REST APIs, databases, or other sources. Its expressiveness and its flexibility have made it an…

Standardized interfaces are the connecting link of today's distributed systems, facilitating access to data services in the cloud. REST APIs have been prevalent over the last years, despite several issues like over- and underfetching of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Dominik Adam Kus , István Koren , Ralf Klamma

GraphQL is a popular new approach to build Web APIs that enable clients to retrieve exactly the data they need. Given the growing number of tools and techniques for building GraphQL servers, there is an increasing need for comparing how…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Sijin Cheng , Olaf Hartig

GraphQL is a novel query language for implementing service-based software architectures. The language is gaining momentum and it is now used by major software companies, such as Facebook and GitHub. However, we still lack empirical evidence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Gleison Brito , Marco Tulio Valente

Graph models are fundamental to data analysis in domains rich with complex relationships. Text-to-Graph-Query-Language (Text-to-GQL) systems act as a translator, converting natural language into executable graph queries. This capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Songlin Lyu , Lujie Ban , Zihang Wu , Tianqi Luo , Jirong Liu , Chenhao Ma , Yuyu Luo , Nan Tang , Shipeng Qi , Heng Lin , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong

GraphQL is a novel query language proposed by Facebook to implement Web-based APIs. In this paper, we present a practical study on migrating API clients to this new technology. First, we conduct a grey literature review to gain an in-depth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Gleison Brito , Thais Mombach , Marco Tulio Valente

Inspired by the success of large language models (LLMs), there is a significant research shift from traditional graph learning methods to LLM-based graph frameworks, formally known as GraphLLMs. GraphLLMs leverage the reasoning power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Qihai Zhang , Xinyue Sheng , Yuanfu Sun , Qiaoyu Tan

Nowadays computing becomes increasingly mobile and pervasive. One of the important steps in pervasive computing is context-awareness. Context-aware pervasive systems rely on information about the context and user preferences to adapt their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Tam Van Nguyen , Wontaek Lim , Huy Nguyen , Deokjai Choi

We present the first systematic approach to static and dynamic taint analysis for Graph APIs focusing on broken access control. The approach comprises the following. We taint nodes of the Graph API if they represent data requiring specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Leen Lambers , Lucas Sakizloglou , Taisiya Khakharova , Fernando Orejas

Provenance analysis (PA) has recently emerged as an important solution for cyber attack investigation. PA leverages system monitoring to monitor system activities as a series of system audit events and organizes these events as a provenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fei Shao , Jia Zou , Zhichao Cao , Xusheng Xiao
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