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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

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

The growing need for scalable, maintainable, and fast-deploying systems has made microservice architecture widely popular in software development. This paper presents a system that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the API-first…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Saurabh Chauhan , Zeeshan Rasheed , Abdul Malik Sami , Zheying Zhang , Jussi Rasku , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Pekka Abrahamsson

Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in tackling a broad range of tasks. However, existing methods are mainly restricted to specifically designed tools and fail to fulfill complex instructions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yifan Song , Weimin Xiong , Dawei Zhu , Wenhao Wu , Han Qian , Mingbo Song , Hailiang Huang , Cheng Li , Ke Wang , Rong Yao , Ye Tian , Sujian Li

This paper presents a system that uses Large Language Models (LLMs)-based agents to automate the API-first development of RESTful microservices. This system helps to create an OpenAPI specification, generate server code from it, and refine…

By integrating tools from external APIs, Large Language Models (LLMs) have expanded their promising capabilities in a diverse spectrum of complex real-world tasks. However, testing, evaluation, and analysis of LLM tool use remain in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuheng Huang , Jiayang Song , Da Song , Zhenlan Ji , Wenhan Wang , Shuai Wang , Lei Ma

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

The widespread adoption of REST APIs, coupled with their growing complexity and size, has led to the need for automated REST API testing tools. Current tools focus on the structured data in REST API specifications but often neglect valuable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Myeongsoo Kim , Tyler Stennett , Dhruv Shah , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

Modern web services rely heavily on REST APIs, typically documented using the OpenAPI specification. The widespread adoption of this standard has resulted in the development of many black-box testing tools that generate tests based on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Myeongsoo Kim , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

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

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

In the contemporary landscape of technological advancements, the automation of manual processes is crucial, compelling the demand for huge datasets to effectively train and test machines. This research paper is dedicated to the exploration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-17 S Deepika Sri , Mohammed Aadil S , Sanjjushri Varshini R , Raja CSP Raman , Gopinath Rajagopal , S Taranath Chan

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as consumers of API specifications, whether for code generation, autonomous agent interaction, or API-assisted reasoning. The de facto standard for API description, OpenAPI, was designed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Daniel Garcia

Testing RESTful API is increasingly important in quality assurance of cloud-native applications. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have demonstrated that various testing activities can be performed automatically by large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoke Han , Hong Zhu

Existing REST API testing tools are typically evaluated using code coverage and crash-based fault metrics. However, recent LLM-based approaches increasingly generate tests from NL requirements to validate functional behaviour, making…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Leon Kogler , Stefan Hangler , Maximilian Ehrhart , Benedikt Dornauer , Roland Wuersching , Peter Schrammel

Automatically crafting test scenarios for REST APIs helps deliver more reliable and trustworthy web-oriented systems. However, current black-box testing approaches rely heavily on the information available in the API's formal documentation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Davide Corradini , Zeno Montolli , Michele Pasqua , Mariano Ceccato

Formal specification generation has recently drawn attention in software engineering as a way to improve program correctness without requiring manual annotations. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in this area, but early…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ragib Shahariar Ayon , Shibbir Ahmed

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to build autonomous agents that perform complex tasks with external tools, often exposed through APIs in enterprise systems. Direct use of these APIs is difficult due to the complex input…

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

LLM-based tool agents offer natural language interfaces, enabling users to seamlessly interact with computing services. While REST APIs are valuable resources for building such agents, they must first be transformed into AI-compatible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xinyi Ni , Qiuyang Wang , Yukun Zhang , Pengyu Hong
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