Abstract

Paul Butcher, senior software engineer, AdaCore, and lead U.K. engineer for the company’s High-Integrity, Complex, Large Software and Electronic Systems initiative, discusses fuzz testing, an automated technique to find security vulnerabilities and other software flaws. Host Philip Winston speaks with Butcher about positive and negative testing, how fuzz testing fits into software development, brute force and blunt force fuzz testing, the American Fuzzy Lop fuzzer from Google, and how fuzz testing works for Ada. We provide summary excerpts below; to hear the full interview, visit http://www.se-radio.net or access our archives via RSS at http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio.—Robert Blumen

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