Tutorial: Getting started with fuzzing

from: https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/fuzz

This tutorial introduces the basics of fuzzing in Go. With fuzzing, random data is run against your test in an attempt to find vulnerabilities or crash-causing inputs. Some examples of vulnerabilities that can be found by fuzzing are SQL injection, buffer overflow, denial of service and cross-site scripting attacks.

In this tutorial, you’ll write a fuzz test for a simple function, run the go command, and debug and fix issues in the code.

Usage

Execute the following command to run the tutorial:

make build
bin/tutorial -feature fuzzing

# or

make run

Execute unit tests

make test

Execute fuzzing test

make fuzztest