• Building an open-source system test generation tool: lessons learned and empirical analyses with EvoMaster 

      Arcuri, Andrea; Zhang, Man; Belhadi, Asma; Marculescu, Bogdan; Golmohammadi, Amid; Seran, Susruthan; Galeotti, Juan Pablo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research in software testing often involves the development of software prototypes. Like any piece of software, there are challenges in the development, use and verification of such tools. However, some challenges are ...
    • JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs 

      Zhang, Man; Belhadi, Asma; Arcuri, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. However, its dynamic nature poses several challenges to automated testing techniques. In this paper, we propose an approach and open-source tool support to enable ...
    • .NET/C# instrumentation for search-based software testing 

      Golmohammadi, Amid; Zhang, Man; Arcuri, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      C# is one of the most widely used programming languages. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no work in the literature aimed at enabling search-based software testing techniques for applications running ...
    • Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools 

      Zhang, Man; Arcuri, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      RESTful APIs are a type of web service that are widely used in industry. In the past few years, a lot of effort in the research community has been spent in designing novel techniques to automatically fuzz those APIs to ...
    • Random Testing and Evolutionary Testing for Fuzzing GraphQL APIs 

      Belhadi, Asma; Zhang, Man; Arcuri, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      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 ...