[HN Gopher] What Is Fuzz Testing?
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       What Is Fuzz Testing?
        
       Author : andrei
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-04-07 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.fuzzbuzz.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.fuzzbuzz.io)
        
       | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
       | I wrote a rudimentary fuzzer at work for the sole purpose of
       | generating core dumps. It worked so well that I got a stern
       | talking to about not helping them release the software.
        
         | Forge36 wrote:
         | Did they expect to release on a non working state?
        
         | andrei wrote:
         | Basic fuzzers can surprisingly go a long way. Barton Miller
         | (the professor who first coined the term fuzzing), actually
         | wrote a paper last year [0] where he just ran a very basic
         | fuzzer against a bunch of common UNIX tools. Even after all
         | these years of testing/usage, they still managed to find a ton
         | of issues.
         | 
         | [0]:
         | https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/59964/TR12...
        
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