fuzzer

English

Etymology

fuzz +‎ -er

Noun

fuzzer (plural fuzzers)

1. (computing) A software program that performs fuzz testing.
   • 2006 August 5, “indentify^[sic] if argument is char or float”, in comp.lang.c‎^[1] (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 (lyrics and music), “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^[2], 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.