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 …

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 …

Automated testing approaches for RESTful web APIs typically follow a black-box strategy,
where test cases are derived from the API specification. These techniques show promising …

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

The growth of the web over the last couple of decades opened the door for the creation of an
increasing number of web-based software systems. This change brought the need for new …

We present Schemathesis, a tool for finding semantic errors and crashes in OpenAPI or
GraphQL web APIs through property-based testing. Our evaluation, thirty independent runs …

Online testing of web APIs—testing APIs in production—is gaining traction in industry.
Platforms such as RapidAPI and Sauce Labs provide online testing and monitoring services …

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 …

In literature, we can find research tools to automatically generate test cases for RESTful
APIs, addressing the specificity of this particular programming domain. However, no direct …