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This demo presents the implementation and usage details of GASSERT, the first tool to automatically improve assertion oracles. Assertion oracles are executable boolean expressions placed inside the program that should pass (return true) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Valerio Terragni , Gunel Jahangirova , Paolo Tonella , Mauro Pezzè

Many automatic unit test generation tools that can generate unit test cases with high coverage over a program have been proposed. However, most of these tools are ineffective on deep learning (DL) frameworks due to the fact that many of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Arunkaleeshwaran Narayanan , Nima Shiri harzevili , Junjie Wang , Lin Shi , Moshi Wei , Song Wang

REST APIs (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces) are an indispensable building block in today's cloud-native applications, so testing them is critically important. However, writing automated tests for such REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tolgahan Bardakci , Serge Demeyer , Mutlu Beyazit

Recently, various automated testing approaches have been proposed that use specialized test oracles to find hundreds of logic bugs in mature, widely-used Database Management Systems (DBMSs). These test oracles require database and query…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Suyang Zhong , Manuel Rigger

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

The rising popularity of the microservice architectural style has led to a growing demand for automated testing approaches tailored to these systems. EvoMaster is a state-of-the-art tool that uses Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Clinton Cao , Annibale Panichella , Sicco Verwer

Software testing is critical in the software development lifecycle, yet translating requirements into executable test scripts remains manual and error-prone. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate code, they often hallucinate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dudekula Kasim Vali

Automatic generators of GUI tests often fail to generate semantically relevant test cases, and thus miss important test scenarios. To address this issue, test adaptation techniques can be used to automatically generate semantically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Leonardo Mariani , Mauro Pezzè , Valerio Terragni , Daniele Zuddas

Mass assignment is one of the most prominent vulnerabilities in RESTful APIs. This vulnerability originates from a misconfiguration in common web frameworks, such that naming convention and automatic binding can be exploited by an attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Davide Corradini , Michele Pasqua , Mariano Ceccato

Web applications are distributed applications, they are programs that run on more than one computer and communicate through a network or server. This very distributed nature of web applications, combined with the scale and sheer complexity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Akash Nagaraj , Bishesh Sinha , Mukund Sood , Yash Mathur , Sanchika Gupta , Dinkar Sitaram

Metamorphic testing is a well known approach to tackle the oracle problem in software testing. This technique requires the use of source test cases that serve as seeds for the generation of follow-up test cases. Systematic design of test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Prashanta Saha , Upulee Kanewala

With the application of deep learning technology, tools of DL framework testing are in high demand. Existing DL framework testing tools have limited coverage of bug types. For example, they lack the capability of effectively finding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xiaoyu Zhang , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Shiwei Wang , Chao Shen

Modern web applications rely heavily on client-side API calls to fetch data, render content, and communicate with backend services. However, the quality of these network interactions (redundant requests, missing cache headers, oversized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ali Hassaan Mughal , Muhammad Bilal , Noor Fatima

Artificial Intelligence systems, which benefit from the availability of large-scale datasets and increasing computational power, have become effective solutions to various critical tasks, such as natural language understanding, speech…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhou Yang , Chenyu Wang , Jieke Shi , Thong Hoang , Pavneet Kochhar , Qinghua Lu , Zhenchang Xing , David Lo

Testing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires complex oracles to determine if the AVs behavior conforms with specifications and humans' expectations. Available open source oracles are tightly embedded in the AV simulation software and are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ana Nora Evans , Mary Lou Soffa , Sebastian Elbaum

Translating software written in C to Rust has significant benefits in improving memory safety. However, manual translation is cumbersome, error-prone, and often produces unidiomatic code. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tianyang Zhou , Ziyi Zhang , Haowen Lin , Somesh Jha , Mihai Christodorescu , Kirill Levchenko , Varun Chandrasekaran

Machine learning (ML) for text classification has been widely used in various domains. These applications can significantly impact ethics, economics, and human behavior, raising serious concerns about trusting ML decisions. Studies indicate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Lam Nguyen Tung , Steven Cho , Xiaoning Du , Neelofar Neelofar , Valerio Terragni , Stefano Ruberto , Aldeida Aleti

Sequential transfer optimization (STO), which aims to improve the optimization performance on a task of interest by exploiting the knowledge captured from several previously-solved optimization tasks stored in a database, has been gaining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xiaoming Xue , Cuie Yang , Liang Feng , Kai Zhang , Linqi Song , Kay Chen Tan

Understanding the behaviour of a system's API can be hard. Giving users access to relevant examples of how an API behaves has been shown to make this easier for them. In addition, such examples can be used to verify expected behaviour or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Stefan Karlsson , John Hughes , Robbert Jongeling , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

In software testing, a set of test cases is constructed according to some predefined selection criteria. The software is then examined against these test cases. Three interesting observations have been made on the current artifacts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-02 T. Y. Chen , S. C. Cheung , S. M. Yiu