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caseforge
Copyright 2026 testmind-hq

This product includes software developed at testmind-hq
(https://github.com/testmind-hq).

== References (no source code embedded) ==

The following projects influenced concepts, design patterns, or specific
methodologies referenced in code comments. No source code from these
projects is embedded in caseforge:

- Schemathesis (https://github.com/schemathesis/schemathesis) - MIT
  Inspiration for the CoverageScenario concept (internal/score/scenarios.go).
  Implementation is independent; no source code is embedded or derived.

- CATS (https://github.com/Endava/cats) - Apache-2.0
  Inspiration for mass-assignment and unicode-fuzzing test patterns
  (internal/methodology/). Implementation is independent; no source code
  is embedded or derived.

- EvoMaster (https://github.com/EMResearch/EvoMaster) - LGPL-3.0
  Concept-level reference only. The following six features are
  independently implemented in Go using caseforge's own data structures
  (kin-openapi types, the TestCase/Step/Assertion schema, the Postman
  Collection v2.1 schema). No source code is embedded or derived from
  EvoMaster's Kotlin codebase, and the algorithms are independently
  designed (e.g. caseforge's exploreWithPriority is a simple two-pass
  loop, not an evolutionary search; caseforge's DataPool is a
  single-dimensional map, not a fitness-weighted feeder):

  1. OpenAPI Links parsing for producer-consumer dependency edges
     (internal/spec/parser.go, internal/methodology/depgraph.go) —
     concept inspired by EvoMaster's RestLink discovery.
  2. DELETE teardown step in chain command (cmd/chain.go) —
     concept inspired by EvoMaster's blackBoxCleanUp flag.
  3. DataPool for response-derived test values
     (internal/datagen/pool.go, internal/dea/explorer.go) —
     concept inspired by EvoMaster's RestResponseFeeder.
  4. Per-(endpoint x status-code) coverage metric
     (internal/score/scorer.go) — concept inspired by EvoMaster's
     coverage targets.
  5. Postman Collection v2.1 seeding into DataPool
     (internal/datagen/postman_seed.go) — concept inspired by
     EvoMaster's PostmanParser.
  6. Two-pass exploration scheduling (breadth-then-depth)
     (internal/dea/explorer.go) — concept inspired by EvoMaster's
     focused-search mode.

  See docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-11-evomaster-inspired.md for the
  natural-language plan describing these six concepts.

- Tcases (https://github.com/Cornutum/tcases) - MIT
  Concept-level reference for the isolated negative test principle, the
  schema-violation enumeration approach, and the variable irrelevance /
  NA-marking idea. Implemented independently in Go in
  internal/methodology/{isolated_negative,schema_violation,variable_irrelevance}.go.
  No source code is embedded or derived.
  See docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-10-tcases-inspired-techniques.md for the
  natural-language plan.

- RESTler (https://github.com/microsoft/restler-fuzzer) - MIT
  Concept-level reference for the dependency-graph + N-step chain approach to
  stateful REST API testing. Implemented independently in Go in
  internal/methodology/{depgraph,chain,mutation,auth_chain}.go. RESTler is
  Python; no source code is embedded or derived.
  See docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-10-restler-inspired-optimizations.md.

- Portman (https://github.com/apideck-libraries/portman) - Apache-2.0
  Concept-level reference for the semantic-annotation (nullable / readOnly /
  writeOnly) and field-boundary test patterns. Implemented independently in
  Go in internal/methodology/{semantic_annotation,field_boundary}.go.
  No source code is embedded or derived.
  See docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-12-portman-microcks-inspired.md.

- Microcks (https://github.com/microcks/microcks) - Apache-2.0
  Concept-level reference for HAR-based traffic import and conformance-gate
  CI patterns. Implemented independently in Go in internal/har/ and the
  caseforge import / conformance commands. No source code is embedded or
  derived.
  See docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-12-portman-microcks-inspired.md.

- RBCTest (academic research)
  Concept-level reference for the Observation-Confirmation (OC) two-step
  prompting pattern used for response-body oracle mining. Implemented
  independently in caseforge's internal/oracle/. No source code is
  embedded or derived from any reference implementation.
  See docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-12-paper-inspired-features.md.

- AutoRestTest (academic research)
  Concept-level reference for failure classification and coverage-gap
  filling strategies. Implemented independently in caseforge's run-failure
  classification and `score --fill-gaps` features. No source code is
  embedded or derived from any reference implementation.

- RESTifAI (academic research)
  Concept-level reference for LLM-driven business-rule violation generation
  and chain-sequence inference. Implemented independently in caseforge's
  internal/methodology/{business_rule_violation,chain_sequence}.go.
  No source code is embedded or derived from any reference implementation.

- OWASP API Security Top 10 (https://owasp.org/API-Security/) - CC-BY-SA-4.0
  Used for security test category names and overall structure. caseforge
  does not reproduce OWASP documentation text.

== Output formats supported ==

caseforge generates test files for the following execution environments,
but no source code from these projects is embedded:

- Hurl (https://hurl.dev) - Apache 2.0
- k6 (https://k6.io) - AGPL-3.0
- Postman Collection v2.1 schema (https://www.postman.com) - Apache 2.0