On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:50 AM, jungle Boogie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Related to testing, have you or anyone used AFL[0] on Fossil? I know > Michael (its creator) ran it against sqlite and reported dozens of > findings to drh and as of 3.8.10[1], AFL is apart of the tests for > sqlite. > > I'd run AFL against fossil if I knew how but when looking at it, I'm > not sure where to being. > i recall the sqlite threads regarding this, but it seems, to me, to be geared more towards programs taking "very flexible" forms of input (script languages and similar). For fossil it could very well result in a garbage repo without that being an error, per se (e.g. it would produce random branch names (of endless variety)). It could, i think, be useful for fuzz-testing the json api, but i'm not convinced that applying it to the fossil cli would be all that useful. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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