fuzzer

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English

Etymology

From fuzz +‎ -er.

Noun

fuzzer (plural fuzzers)

  1. (computing) A software program that performs fuzz testing.
    • 2006 August 5, “indentify if argument is char or float”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      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, “Zero Day” (track 1), in Zero Day ft. Dual Core, YTCracker, and Jane Silence:
      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.