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most citedFuzzing Microservices: A Series of User Studies in Industry on Industrial Systems with EvoMaster

13 citations · 35 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.SE2026

Using OAI Overlay to Enhance REST API Fuzzing

Omur Sahin, Man Zhang, Alexander Poth +6

REST APIs are widely used in industry. Therefore, a lot of research has been focused on how to automatically generate test cases for REST APIs, with few different open-source fuzze…

cs.SE2026

MASTOR: A Multi-Agent Approach to Semantic Test Oracle Generation for RESTful APIs

Sida Deng, Rubing Huang, Zhenzhen Yang +3

Existing automated RESTful API testing approaches commonly rely on simple checks (e.g., HTTP status codes, schema conformance), which are insufficient for detecting semantic faults…

cs.SE2026

Enhancing REST API Fuzzing with Access Policy Violation Checks and Injection Attacks

Omur Sahin, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri

Due to their widespread use in industry, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to fuzz REST APIs. Existing fuzzers for REST APIs have been focusing on detecting c…

cs.SE2025

WFC/WFD: Web Fuzzing Commons, Dataset and Guidelines to Support Experimentation in REST API Fuzzing

Omur Sahin, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri

Fuzzing REST APIs is an important research problem, with practical applications and impact in industry. As such, a lot of research work has been carried out on this topic in the la…

cs.SE2025

Search-Based Fuzzing For RESTful APIs That Use MongoDB

Hernan Ghianni, Man Zhang, Juan P. Galeotti +1

In RESTful APIs, interactions with a database are a common and crucial aspect. When generating whitebox tests, it is essential to consider the database's state (i.e., the data cont…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

Causes and Effects of Fitness Landscapes in System Test Generation: A Replication Study

Omur Sahin, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) has seen several success stories in academia and industry. The effectiveness of a search algorithm at solving a software engineering problem st…

cs.SE2023

Advanced White-Box Heuristics for Search-Based Fuzzing of REST APIs

Andrea Arcuri, Man Zhang, Juan Pablo Galeotti

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 o…

cs.SE2022★ 7 cited

Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey

Amid Golmohammadi, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri

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

cs.SE2022★ 5 cited

White-Box and Black-Box Fuzzing for GraphQL APIs

Asma Belhadi, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri

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 limit…

cs.SE2022★ 2 cited

White-box Fuzzing RPC-based APIs with EvoMaster: An Industrial Case Study

Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri, Yonggang Li +2

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a communication protocol to support client-server interactions among services over a network. RPC is widely applied in industry for building large-sc…

cs.SE2022★ 13 cited

Fuzzing Microservices: A Series of User Studies in Industry on Industrial Systems with EvoMaster

Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri, Yonggang Li +5

With several microservice architectures comprising of thousands of web services, used to serve 630 million customers, companies like Meituan face several challenges in the verifica…

cs.SE2022★ 6 cited

Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools

Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri

RESTful APIs are a type of web services that are widely used in industry. In the last few years, a lot of effort in the research community has been spent in designing novel techniq…