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RESTful APIs are a type of web services that are widely used in industry. In the last few years, a lot of effort in the research community has been spent in designing novel techniques to automatically fuzz those APIs to find faults in them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Despite the advancements of open-source large language models (LLMs), e.g., LLaMA, they remain significantly limited in tool-use capabilities, i.e., using external tools (APIs) to fulfill human instructions. The reason is that current…

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on external tools and APIs to execute complex tasks specified in natural language. Evaluating such tool calling capabilities in realistic enterprise settings is challenging: APIs are often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Elder , Anupama Murthi , Jungkoo Kang , Ankita Rajaram Naik , Kiran Kate , Kinjal Basu , Danish Contractor

Large Language Models (LLMs) have witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years, prompting the exploration of tool learning, which integrates LLMs with external tools to address diverse real-world challenges. Assessing the capability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zhicheng Guo , Sijie Cheng , Hao Wang , Shihao Liang , Yujia Qin , Peng Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has spurred significant interest in tool learning, where LLMs are augmented with external tools to tackle complex tasks. However, existing tool environments face challenges in balancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhicheng Guo , Sijie Cheng , Yuchen Niu , Hao Wang , Sicheng Zhou , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu

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

In the last years, RESTful Web services have become more and more popular as a lightweight solution to connect remote systems in distributed and Cloud-based architectures. However, being an architectural style rather than a specification or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hamza Ed-Douibi , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo , Abel Gómez , Massimo Tisi , Jordi Cabot

Test coverage is a standard measure used to evaluate the completeness of a test suite. Coverage is typically computed on source code, by assessing the extent of source code entities (e.g., statements, data dependencies, control…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Davide Corradini , Amedeo Zampieri , Michele Pasqua , Mariano Ceccato

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

REST APIs enable collaboration among microservices. A single fault in a REST API can bring down the entire microservice system and cause significant financial losses, underscoring the importance of REST API testing. Effectively testing REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ding Yang , Ruixiang Qian , Zhao Wei , Zhenyu Chen , Chunrong Fang

Large language model (LLM)-powered assistants are increasingly used for generating program code and unit tests, but their application in acceptance testing remains underexplored. To help address this gap, this paper explores the use of LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Margarida Ferreira , Luis Viegas , Joao Pascoal Faria , Bruno Lima

We present AstraAI, a command-line interface (CLI) coding framework for high-performance computing (HPC) software development. AstraAI operates directly within a Linux terminal and integrates large language models (LLMs) with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mahesh Natarajan , Xiaoye Li , Weiqun Zhang

Rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved major advances in reasoning, planning, and function-calling capabilities. Multi-agentic collaborative frameworks using such LLMs place them at the center of solving software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Swapnil Shinde , Sahil Wadhwa , Andy Luo , Akshay Gupta , Mohammad Shahed Sorower

Recently, the large language models (LLMs) have shown extraordinary ability in understanding natural language and generating programming code. It has been a common practice of software engineers to consult LLMs when encountering coding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Li Zhong , Zilong Wang

The resurgence of autonomous agents built using large language models (LLMs) to solve complex real-world tasks has brought increased focus on LLMs' fundamental ability of tool or function calling. At the core of these agents, an LLM must…

Large Language Models (LLMs) leverage external tools primarily through generating the API request to enhance task completion efficiency. The accuracy of API request generation significantly determines the capability of LLMs to accomplish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Huanxi Liu , Jiaqi Liao , Dawei Feng , Kele Xu , Huaimin Wang

In modern automotive development, security testing is critical for safeguarding systems against increasingly advanced threats. Attack trees are widely used to systematically represent potential attack vectors, but generating comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tanmay Khule , Stefan Marksteiner , Jose Alguindigue , Hannes Fuchs , Sebastian Fischmeister , Apurva Narayan

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

The rapid integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into various applications necessitates robust risk management strategies which includes Red Teaming (RT) - an evaluation method for simulating adversarial attacks. Unfortunately, RT for GenAI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Tam n. Nguyen

API testing has increasing demands for software companies. Prior API testing tools were aware of certain types of dependencies that needed to be concise between operations and parameters. However, their approaches, which are mostly done…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tri Le , Thien Tran , Duy Cao , Vy Le , Tien Nguyen , Vu Nguyen