Abstract

In this talk, I will reflect on my experiences designing and applying different forms of fuzzing (whitebox, greybox and blackbox) to various types of software (file processing applications, network servers, compilers, document readers, etc.) and software engineering problems (patch testing, test suite augmentation, refactoring, etc.) While the goal of fuzzing is to find bugs, our objective as fuzzing researchers and practitioners should be to improve the reliability, security and quality of software. I therefore argue that we need to pay closer attention to how fuzzing is integrated into the software development process and how we can use fuzzing to help with other software engineering tasks.

Keynote @ 2nd International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING 2023).