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Tolgahan Bardakci

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Preprint Aug 2026

RESTCov: A Tool for Structural Coverage Analysis of REST APIs

REST APIs are widely used in modern software systems, but developers and testers often lack visibility into which parts of an API specification are exercised by a test suite. Traditional coverage analysis usually relies on source-code instrumentation, which is impractical for REST APIs that are distributed, externally maintained, and hence accessible only through black-box execution. This paper presents RESTCov, a lightweight tool that computes structural REST API coverage from an OpenAPI specification and observed HTTP request/response logs, reporting coverage across paths, operations, parameters, media types, status codes, and status classes. RESTCov produces both machine-readable results and a human-readable HTML report, helping users inspect coverage gaps, diagnose specification-log mismatches, and evaluate REST API test suites without requiring access to the implementation. Screencast: https://youtu.be/mNz2P43OyUc Repository: https://github.com/2tolgahan2/RESTCov

Tolgahan Bardakci, Serge Demeyer · 0 citations

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