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Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yukai Zhao , Shaohua Wang , Jue Wang , Xing Hu , Xin Xia

Fuzzing consists of repeatedly testing an application with modified, or fuzzed, inputs with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities in input-parsing code. In this paper, we show how to automate the generation of an input grammar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Patrice Godefroid , Hila Peleg , Rishabh Singh

Fuzz testing is one of the most effective techniques for finding software vulnerabilities. While modern fuzzers can generate inputs and monitor executions automatically, the overall workflow, from analyzing a codebase, to configuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Max Bazalii , Marius Fleischer

Fuzzing technologies have evolved at a fast pace in recent years, revealing bugs in programs with ever increasing depth and speed. Applications working with complex formats are however more difficult to take on, as inputs need to meet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Andrea Fioraldi , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Emilio Coppa

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

Most of researches on image forensics have been mainly focused on detection of artifacts introduced by a single processing tool. They lead in the development of many specialized algorithms looking for one or more particular footprints under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Habib Ghaffari Hadigheh , Ghazali bin sulong

Context: The complexity of modern safety-critical systems in industries keep on increasing due to the rising number of features and functionalities. This calls for formal methods in order to entrust confidence in such systems. Nevertheless,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Arut Prakash Kaleeswaran , Arne Nordmann , Thomas Vogel , Lars Grunske

Internet of Things (IoT) consists of a large number of devices connected through a network, which exchange a high volume of data, thereby posing new security, privacy, and trust issues. One way to address these issues is ensuring data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Fatimah Aljaafari , Rafael Menezes , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Open-world video games present a broader search space than other video games, posing challenges for test automation. Fuzzing, which generates new inputs by mutating an initial input, is commonly used to uncover issues. In this study, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yusaku Kato , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue

This paper presents a novel fuzzing framework, called MicroFuzz, specifically designed for Microservices. Mocking-Assisted Seed Execution, Distributed Tracing, Seed Refresh and Pipeline Parallelism approaches are adopted to address the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peng Di , Bingchang Liu , Yiyi Gao

In today's age of digital technology, ethical concerns regarding computing systems are increasing. While the focus of such concerns currently is on requirements for software, this article spotlights the hardware domain, specifically…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Timo Speith , Julian Speith , Steffen Becker , Yixin Zou , Asia Biega , Christof Paar

The widespread adoption of microservices has fundamentally transformed how modern software systems are designed, deployed, operated and maintained. However, well-known microservice properties (e.g., dynamic scalability and decentralized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Man Zhang , Tao Yue , Andrea Arcuri

Fuzzing REST APIs is an important research problem, with practical applications and impact in industry. As such, a lot of research work has been carried out on this topic in the last few years. However, there are three major issues that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Selected procedures in [1] and additional simulation results are presented in detail in this report. We first present the IoT device registration in Section I, and we provide the details of fuzzy-based trust computation in Section II. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ali Shahidinejad , Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani , Alireza Souri , Mohammad Shojafar , Saru Kumari

With the rapid growth of IoT, secure and efficient mesh networking has become essential. Thread has emerged as a key protocol, widely used in smart-home and commercial systems, and serving as a core transport layer in the Matter standard.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ilja Siroš , Jakob Heirwegh , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

Testing is essential to modern software engineering for building reliable software. Given the high costs of manually creating test cases, automated test case generation, particularly methods utilizing large language models, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yifeng He , Jicheng Wang , Yuyang Rong , Hao Chen

Performance increase with general-purpose processors has come to a halt. We can no longer depend on Moore's Law to increase computing performance. The only way to achieve higher performance or lower energy consumption is by building…

Fuzzing is one of the fastest growing fields in software testing. The idea behind fuzzing is to check the behavior of software against a large number of randomly generated inputs, trying to cover all interesting parts of the input space,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rahul Gopinath , Philipp Görz , Alex Groce

Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight testing approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities. However, greybox fuzzers randomly mutate program inputs to exercise new paths; this makes it challenging to cover code that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

There are around 5.3 billion Internet users, amounting to 65.7% of the global population, and web technology is the backbone of the services delivered via the Internet. To ensure web applications are free from security-related bugs, web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 I Putu Arya Dharmaadi , Elias Athanasopoulos , Fatih Turkmen