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Due to its importance and widespread use in industry, automated testing of REST APIs has attracted major interest from the research community in the last few years. However, most of the work in the literature has been focused on black-box…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Andrea Arcuri , Man Zhang , Juan Pablo Galeotti

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

Software testing has progressed toward intelligent automation, yet current AI-based test generators still suffer from static, single-shot outputs that frequently produce invalid, redundant, or non-executable tests due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar , Nawaz Ali Mohammad

Cloud high quality API (Application Programming Interface) testing is essential for supporting the API economy. Autotest is a random test generator that addresses this need. It reads the API specification and deduces a model used in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Eitan Farchi , Krithika Prakash , Vitali Sokhin

Black-box adversarial attacks have demonstrated strong potential to compromise machine learning models by iteratively querying the target model or leveraging transferability from a local surrogate model. Recently, such attacks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanbin Hong , Xinyu Zhang , Binghui Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong

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

The demand for automated security analysis techniques, such as static analysis based security testing (SAST) tools continues to increase. To develop SASTs that are effectively leveraged by developers for finding vulnerabilities, researchers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Amit Seal Ami , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk , Adwait Nadkarni

Several studies showed that misuses of cryptographic APIs are common in real-world code (e.g., Apache projects and Android apps). There exist several open-sourced and commercial security tools that automatically screen Java programs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Sharmin Afrose , Ya Xiao , Sazzadur Rahaman , Barton P. Miller , Danfeng , Yao

We present an approach to software testing automation using Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for Quality Engineering (QE) artifact creation. We combine autonomous AI agents with hybrid vector-graph knowledge systems to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mohanakrishnan Hariharan , Satish Arvapalli , Seshu Barma , Evangeline Sheela

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds immense potential in medical applications. Numerous studies have explored the efficacy of various generative AI models within healthcare contexts, but there is a lack of a comprehensive and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jinghong Chen , Lingxuan Zhu , Weiming Mou , Zaoqu Liu , Quan Cheng , Anqi Lin , Jian Zhang , Peng Luo

Stochastic cyber-physical systems (CPS) permeate critical infrastructure, from autonomous vehicles to medical devices. Yet, tools for runtime verification of such systems capturing the probabilistic dynamics in stochastic systems remain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Paapa Kwesi Quansah , Ernest Bonnah

Software projects capture information in various kinds of artifacts, including source code, tests, and documentation. Such artifacts routinely encode information that is redundant, i.e., when a specification encoded in the source code is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mathieu Nassif , Alexa Hernandez , Ashvitha Sridharan , Martin P. Robillard

The effectiveness of a test suite in detecting faults highly depends on the correctness and completeness of its test oracles. Large Language Models (LLMs) have already demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling diverse software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Facundo Molina , Alessandra Gorla

Autonomous language-model agents increasingly rely on installable skills and tools to complete user tasks. Static skill auditing can expose capability surface before deployment, but it cannot determine whether a particular invocation is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guijia Zhang , Shu Yang , Xilin Gong , Di Wang

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

Test generation at the graphical user interface (GUI) level has proven to be an effective method to reveal faults. When doing so, a test generator has to repeatably decide what action to execute given the current state of the system under…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Varun Nayak , Daniel Kraus

Software reliability is a primary concern in the construction of software, and thus a fundamental component in the definition of software quality. Analyzing software reliability requires a specification of the intended behavior of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Facundo Molina , Pablo Ponzio , Nazareno Aguirre , Marcelo Frias

Writing tests is a time-consuming yet essential task during software development. We propose to leverage recent advances in deep learning for text and code generation to assist developers in writing tests. We formalize the novel task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Pengyu Nie , Rahul Banerjee , Junyi Jessy Li , Raymond J. Mooney , Milos Gligoric

Generative AI (GAI) holds great potential to improve software engineering productivity, but its untrustworthy outputs, particularly in code synthesis, pose significant challenges. The need for extensive verification and validation (V&V) of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marcus Kessel , Colin Atkinson

In concurrent and distributed systems, software components are expected to communicate according to predetermined protocols and APIs - and if a component does not observe them, the system's reliability is compromised. Furthermore, isolating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Christian Batrolo Burlò , Adrian Francalanza , Alceste Scalas