Fuzz testing is now beta ready!

[Katie Hockman]

Hi gophers!

Native fuzzing is ready for beta testing in its development branch, dev.fuzz! Check out https://blog.golang.org/fuzz-beta for more details.

Fuzzing is a type of automated testing which continuously manipulates inputs to a program to find issues such as panics or bugs. These semi-random data mutations can discover new code coverage that existing unit tests may miss, and uncover edge case bugs which would otherwise go unnoticed. Since fuzzing can reach these edge cases, fuzz testing is particularly valuable for finding security exploits and vulnerabilities.

See golang.org/s/draft-fuzzing-design for more details about this feature.

Best,

Katie on behalf of the Go team