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An empirical study of the reliability of UNIX utilities
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The following section describes the tools built to test the utilities, including the fuzz (random character) generator, ptyjig (to test interactive utilities), and scripts to automate the testing process.Abstract:
The following section describes the tools we built to test the utilities. These tools include the fuzz (random character) generator, ptyjig (to test interactive utilities), and scripts to automate the testing process. Next, we will describe the tests we performed, giving the types of input we presented to the utilities. Results from the tests will follow along with an analysis of the results, including identification and classification of the program bugs that caused the crashes. The final section presents concluding remarks, including suggestions for avoiding the types of problems detected by our study and some commentary on the bugs we found. We include an Appendix with the user manual pages for fuzz and ptyjig.read more
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