fuzzer
English
Etymology
fuzz + -er
Noun
fuzzer (plural fuzzers)
- (computing) A software program that performs fuzz testing.
- 2006 August 5, “indentify[sic] if argument is char or float”, in comp.lang.c, Usenet, message-ID <1154846659.167840.131380@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>:
- You should be able to write a simple fuzzer that hits your arguments to make sure your program is properly checking inputs. Actually, I would take this time to write a fuzzer to just learn how they are built.
- 2010 April 6, MC Frontalot feat. Dual Core, YTCracker and Jane Silence (lyrics and music), “Zero Day”, in Zero Day, track 1:
- Found this bug on my own, no need for a fuzzer
- 2015 December 4, Dmitry Vyukov, “RFC: upstreaming fuzzing coverage support”, in linux-kernel mailing list, message-ID <CACT4Y+Y7qjRCnwUZc60ZOvXyQTrV+o7mToEUgh5hzKVFc48PnA@mail.gmail.com>:
- In exchange for this additional complexity it is more efficient in finding bugs than fuzzers that blindly generate inputs with rand.
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