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Machine learning models are notoriously difficult to interpret and debug. This is particularly true of neural networks. In this work, we introduce automated software testing techniques for neural networks that are well-suited to discovering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-31 Augustus Odena , Ian Goodfellow

Fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is an effective technique used to find security vulnerabilities. It consists of feeding a software under test with malformed inputs, waiting for a weird system behaviour (often a crash of the system). Over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Marcello Maugeri , Cristian Daniele , Giampaolo Bella , Erik Poll

Greybox fuzzing is a scalable and practical approach for software testing. Most greybox fuzzing tools are coverage-guided as reaching high code coverage is more likely to find bugs. However, since most covered codes may not contain bugs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Pengfei Wang , Xu Zhou , Tai Yue , Peihong Lin , Yingying Liu , Kai Lu

Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing (CGF) is one of the most successful and widely-used techniques for bug hunting. Two major approaches are adopted to optimize CGF: (i) to reduce search space of inputs by inferring relationships between input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Kunpeng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Xiaogang Zhu , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen

Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the target program. However, fuzzing large and complex programs remains challenging due to difficulties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Dongdong She , Adam Storek , Yuchong Xie , Seoyoung Kweon , Prashast Srivastava , Suman Jana

Fuzzing is an important method to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Despite considerable progress in this area in the past years, measuring and comparing the effectiveness of fuzzers is still an open research question. In software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Philipp Görz , Björn Mathis , Keno Hassler , Emre Güler , Thorsten Holz , Andreas Zeller , Rahul Gopinath

Deep Learning (DL) libraries such as PyTorch provide the core components to build major AI-enabled applications. Finding bugs in these libraries is important and challenging. Prior approaches have tackled this by performing either API-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Feiran Qin , M. M. Abid Naziri , Hengyu Ai , Saikat Dutta , Marcelo d'Amorim

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting software bugs and vulnerabilities. Most popular fuzzers generate new inputs using an evolutionary search to maximize code coverage. Essentially, these fuzzers start with a set of seed inputs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Dongdong She , Rahul Krishna , Lu Yan , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

We present a coverage-guided testing algorithm for distributed systems implementations. Our main innovation is the use of an abstract formal model of the system that is used to define coverage. Such abstract models are frequently developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan , Rupak Majumdar , Srinidhi Nagendra

Coverage-guided fuzzing's aggressive, high-volume testing has helped reveal tens of thousands of software security flaws. While executing billions of test cases mandates fast code coverage tracing, the nature of binary-only targets leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Stefan Nagy , Anh Nguyen-Tuong , Jason D. Hiser , Jack W. Davidson , Matthew Hicks

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

Fuzzing is one of the prevailing methods for vulnerability detection. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzing methods become ineffective after some period of time, i.e., the coverage hardly improves as existing methods are ineffective to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shunkai Zhu , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Jie Yang , Xingwei Lin , Liyi Zhang , Peng Cheng

Mutation testing consists of generating test cases that detect faults injected into software (generating mutants) which its original test suite could not. By running such an augmented set of test cases, it may discover actual faults that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Mutation testing can help minimize the delivery of faulty software. Therefore, it is a recommended practice for developing embedded software in safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, state-of-the-art mutation testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jaekwon Lee , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Yasutaka Kamei , Hajimu Iida

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

Coverage-based graybox fuzzer (CGF), such as AFL has gained great success in vulnerability detection thanks to its ease-of-use and bug-finding power. Since some code fragments such as memory allocation are more vulnerable than others,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Wenshuo Wang , Liang Cheng , Yang Zhang

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang
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