Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Understand and Secure Web/Enterprise Systems

Project Information

EAST

Grant agreement ID: 864972

DOI

10.3030/864972

EC signature date 9 March 2020

Start date 1 August 2020

End date 31 January 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

HOYSKOLEN KRISTIANIA - ERNST G. MORTENSENS STIFTELSE
Norway

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

"Information concerning the Data Management Plan is described in Annex 1 under ""Work Package 12"" 1. Making data Findable, 2. Making data openly Accessible, 3. Making data Interoperable, 4. Increase data Re-use, 5. Allocation of recourses and data security The data management plan will also have to specify if certain datasets remain closed and the reasons for not giving access should be given."

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

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

Author(s): Man Zhang,Andrea Arcuri,Yonggang Li,Yang Liu,Kaiming Xue
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3585009

Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools

Author(s): Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3597205

Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri, Juan Pablo Galeotti
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 31(1), 2021, Page(s) 1-34, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3477271

Random Testing and Evolutionary Testing for Fuzzing GraphQL APIs

Author(s): Asma Belhadi, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri
Published in: ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023, ISSN 1559-1131
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3609427

JavaScript SBST Heuristics To Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs

Author(s): Man Zhang, Asma Belhadi, Andrea Arcuri
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3593801

Building an open-source system test generation tool: lessons learned and empirical analyses with EvoMaster

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri; Man Zhang; Asma Belhadi; Bogdan Marculescu; Amid Golmohammadi; Juan Pablo Galeotti; Susruthan Seran
Published in: Software Quality Journal, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1573-1367
Publisher: springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-023-09620-w

".NET/C# Instrumentation for Search-Based Software Testing"

Author(s): Golmohammadi, A., Zhang, M., Arcuri, A
Published in: Software Quality Journal, 2023, ISSN 1573-1367
Publisher: springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-023-09645-1

Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey

Author(s): Amid Golmohammadi, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3617175

Other (2)

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

Author(s): O. Sahin, M. Zhang, Andrea Arcuri
Published in: Arxiv, 2025
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00169

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

Author(s): M. Zhang, Andrea Arcuri, Y. Li, K. Xue, Z Wang, J. Huo, W Huang
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.03988

Conference proceedings (12)

Widening The Adoption of Web API Fuzzing: Docker, GitHub Action and Python Support for EvoMaster - DEMO TRACK

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri, P. Garrett, J.P. Galeotti, M. Zhang.
Published in: ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025
Publisher: https://github.com/WebFuzzing/EvoMaster/blob/master/docs/publications.md

EMB: A Curated Corpus of Web/Enterprise Applications And Library Support for Software Testing Research

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri; Man Zhang; Amid Golmohammadi; Asma Belhadi; Juan P. Galeotti; Bogdan Marculescu; Susrutha Seran
Published in: ICST, 2023
Publisher: ieee
DOI: 10.1109/icst57152.2023.00047

Seeding and Mocking in White-Box Fuzzing Enterprise RPC APIs: An Industrial Case Study.

Author(s): M. Zhang, Andrea Arcuri, P. Teng, K. Xue, W. Wang.
Published in: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Industry Track., 2024
Publisher: Github

Search-based Security Testing of Enterprise Microservices

Author(s): S. Seran
Published in: EEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST), Doctoral Symposium., 2024
Publisher: Github

Technology Adoption Performance Evaluation Applied to Testing Industrial REST APIs.

Author(s): A. Poth, O. Rrjolli, Andrea Arcuri.
Published in: Automated Software Engineering (AUSE)., 2024
Publisher: Github

Evolutionary-based automated testing for GraphQL APIs

Author(s): Asma Belhadi,Man Zhang,Andrea Arcuri
Published in: GECCO, 2022
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3520304.3528952

Introducing Black-Box Fuzz Testing for REST APIs in Industry: Challenges and Solutions.

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri, A. Poth, O. Rrjolli
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST), Industry Track, 2025
Publisher: IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST)

JavaScript Instrumentation for Search-Based Software Testing: A Study with RESTful APIs

Author(s): Man Zhang; Asma Belhadi; Andrea Arcuri
Published in: ICST, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icst53961.2022.00022

Tool Report: EvoMaster -- Black and White Box Search-Based Fuzzing for REST, GraphQL and RPC APIs.

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri, M. Zhang, S. Seran, J.P. Galeotti, A. Golmohammadi, O. Duman, A. Aldasoro, H. Ghianni.
Published in: Automated Software Engineering (AUSE), 2024
Publisher: Github

Multi-Phase Taint Analysis for JSON Inference in Search-Based Fuzzing

Author(s): S. Seran, O. Duman, Andrea Arcuri.
Published in: IEEE International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), 2025
Publisher: Github

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

Author(s): Andrea Arcuri, M. Zhang, J.P. Galeotti.
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
Publisher: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

Search-Based White-Box Fuzzing of Web Frontend Applications

Author(s): I. Kertusha
Published in: IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Doctoral Symposium., 2024
Publisher: Github