Service-oriented architecture has evolved to be the backbone for large-scale integration
between different applications and platforms. This concept has led to today's reality of cloud …

In industry, RESTful APIs are widely used to build modern Cloud Applications. Testing them
is challenging, because not only do they rely on network communications, but also they deal …

RESTful APIs are widespread in industry, especially in enterprise applications developed
with a microservice architecture. A RESTful web service will provide data via an API over the …

Automated program repair is the problem of automatically fixing bugs in programs in order to
significantly reduce the debugging costs and improve the software quality. To address this …

RESTful APIs (or REST APIs for short) represent a mainstream approach to design and
develop Web APIs using the REpresentational State Transfer architectural style. When their …

Modern web services routinely provide REST APIs for clients to access their functionality.
These APIs present unique challenges and opportunities for automated testing, driving the …

This paper presents RestCT, a systematic and fully automatic approach that adopts
Combinatorial Testing (CT) to test RESTful APIs. RestCT is systematic in that it covers and …

Testing RESTful APIs thoroughly is critical due to their key role in software integration.
Existing tools for the automated generation of test cases in this domain have shown great …

Metamorphic Testing: Testing the Untestable Page 1 46 IEEE SOFTWARE | PUBLISHED BY
THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY 0740-7459/20©2020IEEE FEATURE: AUTOMATED …

Modern information technology paradigms, such as online services and off-the-shelf
products, often involve a wide variety of users with different or even conflicting objectives …