AST 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026
Tue 14 Apr 2026 14:30 - 15:00 at Oceania VI - Session 7: AI for Automated Software Testing 2 Chair(s): Alisan Aygar

Modern software systems rely heavily on Web APIs, yet creating meaningful and executable test scripts remains a largely manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. In this paper, we present \textit{APITestGenie}, a novel tool that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and prompt engineering to automatically generate API integration tests directly from business requirements and OpenAPI specifications. We evaluated \textit{APITestGenie} on 10 real-world APIs, including 8 APIs comprising circa 1,000 live endpoints from an industrial partner in the automotive domain. The tool was able to generate syntactically and semantically valid test scripts for 89% of the business requirements under test after at most three attempts. Notably, some generated tests revealed previously unknown defects in the APIs, including integration issues between endpoints. Statistical analysis identified API complexity and the level of detail in business requirements as primary factors influencing success rates, with the level of detail in API documentation also affecting outcomes. Feedback from industry practitioners confirmed strong interest in adoption, substantially reducing the manual effort in writing acceptance tests, and improving the alignment between tests and business requirements.

Tue 14 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Session 7: AI for Automated Software Testing 2AST 2026 at Oceania VI
Chair(s): Alisan Aygar
14:00
30m
Talk
L-SCALE: Locality-Sensitive Coverage for Automata LEarning
AST 2026
Mark Giraud Fraunhofer IOSB, Bastian Engel Fraunhofer IOSB, Lea Nasarek Fraunhofer IOSB, Yannis Storrer Fraunhofer IOSB, Philipp Takacs Fraunhofer IOSB, Leon Philipp Wittemund Fraunhofer IOSB
14:30
30m
Talk
APITestGenie: Generating Web API Tests from Requirements and API Specifications with LLMs
AST 2026
André Pereira Deloitte and Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Bruno Lima LIACC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, João Pascoal Faria Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC
Pre-print
15:00
30m
Talk
Software Testing Education in the LLM Era: Insights and Emerging Theory
AST 2026
Samhitha Dwarakanath Pennsylvania State University, Nathalia Nascimento Pennsylvania State University, Everton Guimaraes Pennsylvania State University