Enhancing White-Box Search-Based Testing of RESTful APIs

Abstract

Testing RESTful APIs which today are considered as backbone of the Internet is of great importance. The aim of this project is to effectively perform white-box testing of RESTful APIs by using search-based methods. We first conducted a systematic literature review to analyze the current state-of-the-art work on testing of RESTful APIs and summarize research challenges in this area. This could lead us further to the next steps which are enabling white-box heuristics for testing .NET REST APIs, conducting parameter tuning on search-based REST API testing approaches and analyzing different search algorithms for white-box test generation of REST APIs.