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Tyler Stennett
dblp:362/5802
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0006-9780-9608ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 1, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software testing › API testing
REST API testing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Multi-Agent Approach for REST API Testing with Semantic Graphs and LLM-Driven Inputs · ICSE 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semantic property dependency graph · 0.9multi-agent reinforcement learning · 0.9large language model · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | A Multi-Agent Approach for REST API Testing with Semantic Graphs and LLM-Driven InputsabstractAs modern web services increasingly rely on REST APIs, their thorough testing has become crucial. Furthermore, the advent of REST API documentation languages, such as the OpenAPI Specification, has led to the emergence of many black-box REST API testing tools. However, these tools often focus on individual test elements in isolation (e.g., APIs, parameters, values), resulting in lower coverage and less effectiveness in fault detection. To address these limitations, we present AutoRestTest, the first black-box tool to adopt a dependency-embedded multi-agent approach for REST API testing that integrates multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with a semantic property dependency graph (SPDG) and Large Language Models (LLMs). Our approach treats REST API testing as a separable problem, where four agents-API, dependency, parameter, and value agents-collaborate to optimize API exploration. LLMs handle domain-specific value generation, the SPDG model simplifies the search space for dependencies using a similarity score between API operations, and MARL dynamically optimizes the agents' behavior. Our evaluation of AutoRestTest on 12 real-world REST services shows that it outperforms the four leading black-box REST API testing tools, including those assisted by RESTGPT (which generates realistic test inputs using LLMs), in terms of code coverage, operation coverage, and fault detection. Notably, AutoRestTest is the only tool able to trigger an internal server error in the Spotify service. Our ablation study illustrates that each component of AutoRestTest-the SPDG, the LLM, and the agent-learning mechanism-contributes to its overall effectiveness. Myeongsoo Kim, Tyler Stennett, Saurabh Sinha 0003, Alessandro Orso |
ICSE | 2 |