2023-Present PhD Student (Researcher and Teaching Assistant)
Research: Software Testing, Large Language Models, RESTful APIs
Teaching: Syntax and Semantics, Algorithms, Programming Projects
University of NamurAbout Me
My name is Alix Decrop and I am currently working as a PhD Student (Researcher and Teaching Assistant) at the University of Namur. My work is twofold; I am researcher in Software Testing, Large Language Models, and RESTful APIs. I am also a teaching assistant, my lectures being Syntax and Semantics, Algorithms, and Programming Projects.
My topics of interest revolve around web technologies (mostly RESTful APIs), automation (using LLMs at the moment), and software testing (fuzzing & mutation testing).
Below, you can find information about myself such as my Experience, Education, Publications, Supervision, and Awards.
[Pour mes étudiants, vous pouvez trouver les notes de cours ici.]
Experience
2024-2025 Web Chair for ISSTA'25
Responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining the website of the conference.
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'25)
2024 Web Chair for BENEVOL'24
Responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining the website of the conference.
Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL'24)
2017-2023 Tourist Informant (Student Job)
Responsible for providing information about the local area to visitors.
Education
2021-2023 Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering
Grade: "Grande Distinction" (Magna Cum Laude).
2023 Master's Thesis Internship, Large Language Models and RESTful APIs
Internship at the SnT research center during 4 months.
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
Publications
2025 A Public Benchmark of REST APIs
Alix Decrop, Sara Eraso, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin
2024 Leveraging Natural Language Processing and Data Mining to Augment and Validate APIs
Alix Decrop
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'24) [PDF]
2024 You Can REST Now: Automated Specification Inference and Black-Box Testing of RESTful APIs with Large Language Models
Alix Decrop, Gilles Perrouin, Mike Papadakis, Xavier Devroey, Pierre-Yves Schobbens
2023 Leveraging Large Language Models to Automatically Infer RESTful API Specifications
Alix Decrop, Xavier Devroey (Promotor), Gilles Perrouin (Co-Promotor)
Supervision
2025 A Taxonomy of REST API Vulnerabilities
Lucas Pisuto, Gilles Perrouin (Promotor), Alix Decrop (Co-Promotor)
University of Namur (MSc Thesis)
2025 Fine-Tuning LLMs for OpenAPI Specification Generation
Manal El Kaïdi, Abdelrahman Gad, Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Promotor), Alix Decrop (Co-Promotor)
University of Namur (MSc Thesis)
Awards
2024 Prize for the Best Master's Thesis in Computer Science, General Impact
Award for my Master's Thesis.