NITO: AI-Augmented Black-Box API Testing

Customer Challenges

For software development teams, program managers, and CIOs within Federal Agencies who want to:

Software Delivery

Improve software quality

Risk Mitigation

Mitigate issues before production

Software Validation

Increase the test coverage

Testing Automation

Automate testing, freeing users for more complex tasks

Software Assurance

Improve regression testing through repeatable testing

We offer our Next-Generation Integrated Testing and Optimization (NITO) solution for improved system accuracy and performance through a CI/CD integrated black-box testing tool.

NITO is an integrated black-box testing tool that incorporates analysis of run-time performance and behavior of software during CI/CD pipeline execution. NITO uses GenAI to design tests and summarize results, increasing Dark Wolf-developed software quality, and producing actionable artifacts with minimal investment from dev teams. NITO simplifies, improves, and automates black-box testing of APIs for accuracy and performance by using LLMs to generate test cases based on specifications, resulting in building better software and reducing findings during assessments.

How does NITO work?

Features and Benefits

The Dark Wolf Difference​

Unlike competing tools such as FuzzAPI, Postman API Fuzzer, OWASP ZAP, Gatling, Pact, and Assertible, our CI/CD-integrated black-box testing tool simplifies and automates black-box testing of APIs. NITO minimizes dev team investment, assesses system accuracy and performance in CI/CD, and generates reports to improve customer confidence and satisfaction. Using GenAI to ease adoption and summarize results into actionable items from testing operations that create large result sets (e.g., API fuzzing).

Customer Successes

NITO has been used at Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS), where we addressed specific issues with edge cases and ICD compliance, leading to a reduction in the number of findings during official evaluations. NITO creates and executes thousands of automated integration tests offering a cost and time savings of hundreds of hours that would otherwise be required to conduct testing using traditional manual approaches.