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Go's fuzzing effort now in beta  ↦

We first talked fuzzing with Katie Hockman back in August of 2020. Fast-forward 10 months and native fuzzing in Go is ready for beta testing! Here’s Katie explaining fuzzing, for the uninitiated:

Fuzzing is a type of automated testing which continuously manipulates inputs to a program to find issues such as panics or bugs. These semi-random data mutations can discover new code coverage that existing unit tests may miss, and uncover edge case bugs which would otherwise go unnoticed. Since fuzzing can reach these edge cases, fuzz testing is particularly valuable for finding security exploits and vulnerabilities.

It looks like the feature won’t be landing in Go 1.17, but they’re planning on it sometime after that. Either way, you can use fuzzing today on its development branch.


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