LlamaRestTest: Effective REST API Testing with Small Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08598v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:51:20 GMT
• Title: LlamaRestTest: Effective REST API Testing with Small Language Models
• Authors: Myeongsoo Kim, Saurabh Sinha, Alessandro Orso,
• Abstract summary: We present LlamaRestTest, a novel approach that employs two custom LLMs to generate realistic test inputs. LlamaRestTest surpasses state-of-the-art tools in code coverage and error detection, even with RESTGPT-enhanced specifications.
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• Abstract: Modern web services rely heavily on REST APIs, typically documented using the OpenAPI specification. The widespread adoption of this standard has resulted in the development of many black-box testing tools that generate tests based on these specifications. Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly with Large Language Models (LLMs), have enhanced REST API testing by extracting actionable rules and generating input values from the human-readable portions of the specification. However, these advancements overlook the potential of continuously refining the identified rules and test inputs based on server responses. To address this limitation, we present LlamaRestTest, a novel approach that employs two custom LLMs to generate realistic test inputs and uncover parameter dependencies during the testing process by incorporating server responses. These LLMs are created by fine-tuning the Llama3-8b model, using mined datasets of REST API example values and inter-parameter dependencies. We evaluated LlamaRestTest on 12 real-world services (including popular services such as Spotify), comparing it against RESTGPT, a GPT-powered specification-enhancement tool, as well as several state-of-the-art REST API testing tools, including RESTler, MoRest, EvoMaster, and ARAT-RL. Our results show that fine-tuning enables smaller LLMs to outperform larger models in detecting actionable rules and generating inputs for REST API testing. We evaluated configurations from the base Llama3-8B to fine-tuned versions and explored 2-bit, 4-bit, and 8-bit quantization for efficiency. LlamaRestTest surpasses state-of-the-art tools in code coverage and error detection, even with RESTGPT-enhanced specifications, and an ablation study highlights the impact of its novel components.

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