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Modern software systems rely heavily on Web APIs, yet creating meaningful and executable test scripts remains a largely manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. In this paper, we present APITestGenie, a novel tool that leverages Large…

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Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly with Large Language Models (LLMs), have led to significant progress in narrow tasks such as image classification, language translation, coding, and writing. However, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daniel A. Dollinger , Michael Singleton

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…

Each programming language comes with official documentation to guide developers with APIs, methods, and classes. However, in some cases, official documentation is not an efficient way to get the needed information. As a result, developers…

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AI models and services are used in a growing number of highstakes areas, resulting in a need for increased transparency. Consistent with this, several proposals for higher quality and more consistent documentation of AI data, models, and…

REST APIs play important roles in enriching the action space of web agents, yet most API-based agents rely on curated and uniform toolsets that do not reflect the complexity of real-world APIs. Building tool-using agents for arbitrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Xinyi Ni , Haonan Jian , Qiuyang Wang , Vedanshi Chetan Shah , Pengyu Hong

This study tackles the challenges associated with interpreting Application Programming Interface (API) documentation, an integral aspect of software development. Official API documentation, while essential, can be lengthy and challenging to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-23 AmirHossein Naghshzan , Sylvie Ratte

API integration is a cornerstone of our digital infrastructure, enabling software systems to connect and interact. However, as shown by many studies, writing or generating correct code to invoke APIs, particularly web APIs, is challenging.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Daniel Maninger , Leon Chemnitz , Amir Molzam Sharifloo , Tushar Lamba , Jannis Brugger , Mira Mezini

Automatic documentation generation tools, or auto docs, are widely used to visualize information about APIs. However, each auto doc tool comes with its own unique representation of API information. In this paper, I use an information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Will Crichton

Using APIs to develop software applications is the norm. APIs help developers to build applications faster as they do not need to reinvent the wheel. It is therefore important for developers to understand the APIs that they plan to use.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Ferdian Thung , Kisub Kim , Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ratnadira Widyasari , Zhou Yang , David Lo

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

When learning to use an Application Programming Interface (API), programmers need to understand the inputs and outputs (I/O) of the API functions. Current documentation tools automatically document the static information of I/O, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Siyuan Jiang , Ameer Armaly , Collin McMillan , Qiyu Zhi , Ronald Metoyer

The recent development of large language models (LLMs) with multi-billion parameters, coupled with the creation of user-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs), has paved the way for automatically generating and executing code in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Alejandro Duque , Abdullah Syed , Kastan V. Day , Matthew J. Berry , Daniel S. Katz , Volodymyr V. Kindratenko

Traditionally, software APIs (application programming interfaces) have been viewed from a technical perspective, as a means to separate implementation from functional calls, and as a way to define a contract of software functionality. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jennifer Horkoff , Juho Lindman , Imed Hammouda , Eric Knauss

Inspired by the great potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving complex coding tasks, in this paper, we propose a novel approach, named Code2API, to automatically perform APIzation for Stack Overflow code snippets. Code2API does…

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APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) or Web Services are the foundational building blocks that enable interconnected systems. However this proliferation of APIs has also introduced security challenges that require systematic and…

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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

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) hinges on the quality and accessibility of data, yet the current fragmentation and variability of data sources hinder efficient data utilization. The dispersion of data sources and diversity…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Conghui He , Wei Li , Zhenjiang Jin , Chao Xu , Bin Wang , Dahua Lin

In recent years, Semantic Web technologies have been increasingly adopted by researchers, industry and public institutions to describe and link data on the Web, create web annotations and consume large knowledge graphs like Wikidata and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Daniel Garijo , Maximiliano Osorio

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…