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Testers searching for a solution to find issues in their program processes and applications
About Radamsa
Radamsa is a test case generator for robustness testing or fuzzer. It is typically used to test how well a program can withstand malformed and potentially malicious inputs. It works by reading sample files of valid data and generating interestingly different outputs from them. The main selling points of Radamsa are that it has already found a slew of bugs in programs that actually matter, it is easily scriptable, and, easy to get up and running. Fuzzing is one of the techniques to find unexpected behavior in programs. The idea is simply to subject the program to various kinds of inputs and see what happens. There are two parts to this process: getting the various kinds of inputs and how to see what happens. Radamsa is a solution to the first part, and the second part is typically a short shell script. Testers usually have a more or less vague idea of what should not happen, and they try to find out if this is so.
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Aki Helin
gitlab.com/akihe/radamsa
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