Automated structural testing of LLM-based agents: methods, framework, and case studies

arXiv:2601.18827 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-01-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-01-25

Updated: 2026-10-18

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on BigData 2025 (main track). Copyright (c) 2025 IEEE. Source code for the introduced methods and framework available at https://github.com/awslabs/generative-ai-toolkit

Journal ref: Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2025, pp. 1847-1856

DOI: 10.1109/BigData66926.2025.11401679

Code: https://github.com/awslabs/generative-ai-toolkit

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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