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AI-powered systems have gained widespread popularity in various domains, including Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). However, ensuring their reliability and safety is challenging due to their complex nature. Conventional test adequacy metrics,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Neelofar Neelofar , Aldeida Aleti

The emergence of autonomous, high-velocity Agentic AI systems is creating an internal assurance scalability crisis. Point-in-time, document-based audits cannot keep pace with non deterministic behaviour and distributed deployments of agents…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Guy Lupo , Bao Quoc Vo , Natania Locke

With widespread adoption of AI models for important decision making, ensuring reliability of such models remains an important challenge. In this paper, we present an end-to-end generic framework for testing AI Models which performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Aniya Aggarwal , Samiulla Shaikh , Sandeep Hans , Swastik Haldar , Rema Ananthanarayanan , Diptikalyan Saha

Enterprise agents increasingly operate inside scoped retrieval systems, delegated workflows, and policy-constrained evidence environments. In these settings, access control can be enforced correctly while the system still produces an answer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Krti Tallam

We present a new approach to conformance testing of black-box reactive systems. We consider system specifications written as linear temporal logic formulas to generate tests as sequences of input/output pairs: inputs are extracted from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Massimo Narizzano , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella , Simone Vuotto

Previous works have validated that text generation APIs can be stolen through imitation attacks, causing IP violations. In order to protect the IP of text generation APIs, a recent work has introduced a watermarking algorithm and utilized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xuanli He , Qiongkai Xu , Yi Zeng , Lingjuan Lyu , Fangzhao Wu , Jiwei Li , Ruoxi Jia

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

Agentic language-model systems increasingly rely on mutable execution contexts, including files, memory, tools, skills, and auxiliary artifacts, creating security risks beyond explicit user prompts. This paper presents DeepTrap, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongwei Yao , Yiming Liu , Yiling He , Bingrun Yang

Commercial Large Language Model (LLM) APIs create a fundamental trust problem: users pay for specific models but have no guarantee that providers deliver them faithfully. Providers may covertly substitute cheaper alternatives (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Will Cai , Tianneng Shi , Xuandong Zhao , Dawn Song

We present ACE-Bench (Azure SDK Coding Evaluation Benchmark), an execution-free benchmark that provides fast, reproducible pass or fail signals for whether large language model (LLM)-based coding agents use Azure SDKs correctly-without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wenxing Zhu , Simeng Qi , Junkui Chen , Yan Xie , Min Huang , Jingkan He , Xiao Wang , Cheng Chen , Sijing Meng , Tianqi Zhang

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

In complex reasoning tasks, as expressible by Answer Set Programming (ASP), problems often permit for multiple solutions. In dynamic environments, where knowledge is continuously changing, the question arises how a given model can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Harald Beck , Thomas Eiter , Christian Folie

A test oracle determines whether a system behaves correctly for a given input. Automatic testing techniques rely on an automated test oracle to test the system without user interaction. Important families of automated test oracles include…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Manuel Rigger , Zhendong Su

There is a growing need for Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively use tools and external Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to plan and complete tasks. As such, there is tremendous interest in methods that can acquire…

This paper summarizes our formal approach to testing autonomous vehicles (AVs) in simulation for the IEEE AV Test Challenge. We demonstrate a systematic testing framework leveraging our previous work on formally-driven simulation for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kesav Viswanadha , Francis Indaheng , Justin Wong , Edward Kim , Ellen Kalvan , Yash Pant , Daniel J. Fremont , Sanjit A. Seshia

Large language model fine-tuning APIs enable widespread model customization, yet pose significant safety risks. Recent work shows that adversaries can exploit access to these APIs to bypass model safety mechanisms by encoding harmful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jack Youstra , Mohammed Mahfoud , Yang Yan , Henry Sleight , Ethan Perez , Mrinank Sharma

Static analysis is an essential component of many modern software development tools. Unfortunately, the ever-increasing complexity of static analyzers makes their coding error-prone. Even analysis tools based on rigorous mathematical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Daniela Ferreiro , Ignacio Casso , Jose F. Morales , Pedro López-García , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

A systematic, language-independent method of finding a minimal set of paths covering the code of a sequential program is proposed for application in White Box testing. Execution of all paths from the set ensures also statement coverage.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hanna Makaruk , Robert Owczarek , Nikita Sakhanenko

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) often have usage constraints, such as restrictions on call order or call conditions. API misuses, i.e., violations of these constraints, may lead to software crashes, bugs, and vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Sven Amann , Hoan Anh Nguyen , Sarah Nadi , Tien N. Nguyen , Mira Mezini

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