July 08, 2021

Fuzzing in the standard library

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Fuzzing is coming to the standard library. We speak to Katie Hockman and Jay Conrod who were part of the team responsible for designing and implementing it. We dig into the details, hear some best practices, where fuzzing can help your code, and learn more about how it works.

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Featuring:

Katie Hockman – GitHub, X
Jay Conrod – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

The Fuzzing beta announcement

Our Fuzzing discussion last year

The design proposal

Hot Fuzz movie 🐣

List of bugs fuzzing has found

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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