Automated Black- and White-Box Testing of RESTful APIs With EvoMaster

We apply EvoMaster to eight representational state transfer application programming interfaces; show how the tool can be used to automatically generate test cases that can find several bugs, even when using a naive black-box approach; and discuss challenges that must be taken into account.

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 72 - 78
Main Author Arcuri, Andrea
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2021
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Open source software
Payloads
Servers
Software testing
Web services
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Summary:We apply EvoMaster to eight representational state transfer application programming interfaces; show how the tool can be used to automatically generate test cases that can find several bugs, even when using a naive black-box approach; and discuss challenges that must be taken into account.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2020.3013820