Fuzzing in Go

Fuzzing is a testing technique with randomized inputs that is used to find problematic edge cases or security problems in code that accepts user input. Go package developers can use Dmitry Vyukov's popular go-fuzz tool for fuzz testing their code; it has found hundreds of obscure bugs in the Go standard library as well as in third-party packages. However, this tool is not built in, and is not as simple to use as it could be; to address this, Go team member Katie Hockman recently published a draft design that proposes adding fuzz testing as a first-class feature of the standard go test command.

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