A systematic literature review on software security testing using metaheuristics

F Ahsan, F Anwer - Automated Software Engineering, 2024 - Springer
The security of an application is critical for its success, as breaches cause loss for
organizations and individuals. Search-based software security testing (SBSST) is the field …

[HTML][HTML] Population based metaheuristics in Spark: Towards a general framework using PSO as a case study

XC Pardo, P González, JR Banga, R Doallo - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the years metaheuristics have been successfully applied to optimization problems in
many real-world applications. The increasing complexity and scale of the problems …

[PDF][PDF] An Automatic Test Data Generation Tool using Machine Learning.

C Paduraru, MC Melemciuc - ICSOFT, 2018 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
This paper discusses an open source tool that is capable to assist users in generating
automatic test data for multiple programs under test. The tool works by clustering inputs data …

RiverFuzzRL-an open-source tool to experiment with reinforcement learning for fuzzing

C Paduraru, M Paduraru… - 2021 14th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combining fuzzing techniques and reinforcement learning could be an important direction in
software testing. However, there is a gap in support for experimentation in this field, as there …

Optimizing decision making in concolic execution using reinforcement learning

C Paduraru, M Paduraru… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an improvement to a new opensource testing tool capable of performing
concolic execution on x86 binaries. The novelty is to use a reinforcement learning solution …

Comparing spark with mapreduce: glowworm swarm optimization applied to multimodal functions

G Miryala, SA Ludwig - International Journal of Swarm Intelligence …, 2018 - igi-global.com
Glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) is one of the optimization techniques, which need to
be parallelized in order to evaluate large problems with high-dimensional function spaces …

Big optimization with genetic algorithms: Hadoop, Spark, and MPI

C Salto, G Minetti, E Alba, G Luque - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
Solving problems of high dimensionality (and complexity) usually needs the intense use of
technologies, like parallelism, advanced computers and new types of algorithms …

RiverIoT-a framework proposal for fuzzing IoT applications

C Păduraru, R Cristea… - 2021 IEEE/ACM 3rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an integrated testing framework for Internet of Things (IoT) systems
based on the open-source platform RIVER. Our objective is to leverage the existing methods …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic Fuzz Testing and Tuning Tools for Software Blueprints.

C Paduraru, R Cristea, A Stefanescu - ICSOFT, 2023 - researchgate.net
The increasingly popular no-or low-code paradigm is based on functional blocks connected
on a graphical interface that is accessible to many stakeholders in an application. Areas …

[PDF][PDF] Fuzz Testing with Dynamic Taint Analysis based Tools for Faster Code Coverage.

C Paduraru, MC Melemciuc, B Ghimis - ICSOFT, 2019 - scitepress.org
This paper presents a novel method for creating and using generative models for testing
software applications. At the core of our method, there is a tool performing binary tracing …