My own personal machine could work although I've found in the past it can
be a pain since I'm constantly installing and reconfiguring it for other
tasks and it's more likely to cause other things to break. But it's
certainly a possible option.

--
Michael Mior
[email protected]


Le mer. 12 sept. 2018 à 13:01, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> a écrit :

> My intuition about fuzz testing is that since we are searching an
> exponentially-sized search space in random order we will find 90% of the
> bugs with the first 10% of the effort (or some similar power law). We
> should burn a large amount of CPU on it when we first introduce it, and
> thereafter burn a small amount each nightly test run.
>
> No need to ask INFRA for a VM. Just use your own personal machine
> overnight.
>
> Julian
>
>
> > On Sep 12, 2018, at 6:01 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > True, although 23 days over the lifetime of the project still isn't very
> > much. Definitely better than nothing though. If we take a bit of a hit in
> > CI runtime and catch some bugs, I'm for it :)
> >
> >> It would be great, however we need to have a fuzzer first :)
> >
> > My setup fuzzing the parser with afl seems to be working well, although
> > it's quite slow and never found any crashes so probably not really worth
> it.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Mior
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
> > Le mer. 12 sept. 2018 à 08:40, Vladimir Sitnikov <
> > [email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> >>> My only concern is that may betoo short and unlikely to find any bugs
> >>
> >> Remember: each time it starts from a random point.
> >> Apache Jenkins / Calcite-Master has 800+ builds now.
> >> Travis / Calcite has 2300+ builds now.
> >>
> >> Just to clarify: current Travis configuration is 4 jobs (Java 8, 9, 10,
> 11)
> >> They take ~15 minutes to complete.
> >> We can add one more job that would be dedicated to fuzz testing, and we
> >> could configure it for 1..15 minutes.
> >>
> >> 2300 builds * 15 minutes is 23 days worth of fuzzing.
> >>
> >>> It seems like we could also possibly request a VM
> >>> from INFRA to run fuzz testing full time
> >>
> >> It would be great, however we need to have a fuzzer first :)
> >>
> >> Vladimir
> >>
>
>

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