BOSQTGEN: Breaking the Sound Barrier in Test Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19777v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:11:30 GMT
• Title: BOSQTGEN: Breaking the Sound Barrier in Test Generation
• Authors: S M Sadrul Islam Asif, James Chen, Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron,
• Abstract summary: We introduce BOSQTGEN, a novel black-box and tool for API test generation.<n> BOSQTGEN utilizes a novel approach for decomposing API specifications into primitives, using LLMs to suggest coherent interactions for them, and employing testing to efficiently sample over these values.<n>The resulting BOSQTGEN system achieves an average of 82% of critical code coverage on benchmarks, often a 20% or more increase over prior state-of-the-art systems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Modern software is increasingly built by composing APIs, elevating the API contract to a critical role. Inadequate contracts, however, lead to mismatched expectations and failures, creating a pressing need for robust conformance testing. Current test generation techniques are hindered by key challenges: polyglot systems, source code inaccessibility, a cost-reliability trade-off, and, most critically, the difficulty of generating structured inputs. We introduce BOSQTGEN, a novel black-box methodology and tool for API test generation. BOSQTGEN utilizes a novel approach for decomposing API specifications into primitives, using LLMs to suggest coherent strata for them, and employing combinatorial testing to efficiently sample over these values. This approach ensures coverage of critical interactions while avoiding the redundancy of random sampling. The resulting BOSQTGEN system achieves an average of 82% code coverage on RESTful benchmarks, often a 20% or more increase over prior state-of-the-art systems and nearing parity with hand-written test suites. Providing a fully API-driven approach to test generation, enables developers to automatically create high-quality test cases for validation or test-driven development.

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