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As an infrastructure for data persistence and analysis, Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are the cornerstones of modern enterprise software. To improve their correctness, the industry has been applying blackbox fuzzing for decades.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingzhe Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Xinyi Xu , Jie Liang , Chijin Zhou , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

As the complexity of logic designs increase, new avenues for testing digital hardware becomes necessary. Fuzz Testing (fuzzing) has recently received attention as a potential candidate for input vector generation on hardware designs. Using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ruochen Dai , Michael Lee , Patrick Hoey , Weimin Fu , Tuba Yavuz , Xiaolong Guo , Shuo Wang , Dean Sullivan , Orlando Arias

Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are reusable software libraries and are building blocks for modern rapid software development. Previous research shows that programmers frequently share and search for reviews of APIs on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-28 chengran Yang , Bowen Xu , Junaed younus Khan , Gias Uddin , Donggyun Han , Zhou Yang , David Lo

OneAPI is an open standard that supports cross-architecture software development with minimal effort from developers. It brings DPC++ and C++ compilers which need to be thoroughly tested to verify their correctness, reliability, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rana Elnaggar , Brian Delgado , Jason M. Fung

Tracing the sequence of library and system calls that a program makes is very helpful in the characterization of its interactions with the surrounding environment and ultimately of its semantics. Due to entanglements of real-world software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Daniele Cono D'Elia , Simone Nicchi , Matteo Mariani , Matteo Marini , Federico Palmaro

A growing body of research has been dedicated to DL model testing. However, there is still limited work on testing DL libraries, which serve as the foundations for building, training, and running DL models. Prior work on fuzzing DL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yinlin Deng , Chenyuan Yang , Anjiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

Deep learning powers critical applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance, where the correctness of underlying libraries is essential. Bugs in widely used deep learning APIs can propagate to downstream systems, causing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bin Duan , Ruican Dong , Naipeng Dong , Dan Dongseong Kim , Guowei Yang

Fuzzing is widely used for software vulnerability detection. There are various kinds of fuzzers with different fuzzing strategies, and most of them perform well on their targets. However, in industry practice and empirical study, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yuanliang Chen , Yu Jiang , Fuchen Ma , Jie Liang , Mingzhe Wang , Chijin Zhou , Zhuo Su , Xun Jiao

As security becomes more relevant for many companies, the popularity of static program analysis (SPA) tools is increasing. In this paper, we target the use of SPA tools among companies in Germany with a focus on security. We give insights…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Goran Piskachev , Stefan Dziwok , Thorsten Koch , Sven Merschjohan , Eric Bodden

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a well-established and rapidly evolving field within AI that enhances the outputs of large language models by integrating relevant information retrieved from external knowledge sources. While industry…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lorenz Brehme , Benedikt Dornauer , Thomas Ströhle , Maximilian Ehrhart , Ruth Breu

Validating the safety of autonomous systems generally requires the use of high-fidelity simulators that adequately capture the variability of real-world scenarios. However, it is generally not feasible to exhaustively search the space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Mark Koren , Ahmed Nassar , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Software engineers use regular expressions (regexes) across a wide range of domains and tasks. To support regexes, software projects must integrate a regex engine, whether provided natively by the language runtime (e.g., Python's re) or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Berk Çakar , Dongyoon Lee , James C. Davis

Virtual testing has emerged as an effective approach to accelerate the deployment of automated driving systems. Nevertheless, existing simulation toolchains encounter difficulties in integrating rapid, automated scenario generation with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Dong Bi , Yongqi Zhao , Zhengguo Gu , Tomislav Mihalj , Jia Hu , Arno Eichberger

To learn how to introduce automated regression testing to existing medium scale Open Source projects, a long-term field experiment was performed with the Open Source project FreeCol. Results indicate that (1) introducing testing is both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-06 Christopher Oezbek

When academic researchers develop and validate autonomous driving algorithms, there is a challenge in balancing high-performance capabilities with the cost and complexity of the vehicle platform. Much of today's research on autonomous…

Continuous fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for automated quality and security assurance. Google maintains OSS-Fuzz: a continuous fuzzing service for open source software. We conduct the first empirical study of OSS-Fuzz,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhen Yu Ding , Claire Le Goues

The fast-growing Web API landscape brings clients more options than ever before---in theory. In practice, they cannot easily switch between different providers offering similar functionality. We discuss a vision for developing Web APIs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Ruben Verborgh , Michel Dumontier

Open-world video games present a broader search space than other video games, posing challenges for test automation. Fuzzing, which generates new inputs by mutating an initial input, is commonly used to uncover issues. In this study, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yusaku Kato , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue