Advanced Fuzzing Techniques Andreas Zeller + Rahul Gopinath + Rafael Dutra

Dear former course participants,

Thank you for your interest in software testing and debugging! We're developing Alhazen, a tool that automatically finds out when and why your program fails. We are heavily relying on your opinion as professional developers. Please take part in our user study to help us tie our approach to your needs:

    https://tinyurl.com/debuggingstudy

Thanks a lot!

Andreas Zeller + Team

Hi,

We're sending a poll so that we get more information to schedule the presentations.

Can you please fill out this poll today by selecting one or two preferred presentation dates?

Presentations will always start at 16:15 and can end no later than 18:00.

We're expecting 10 min presentation + 10 min discussion for each student.

Thank you!

https://whenisgood.net/gtpk84z

Hi, all!

Since most of the students wouldn't have everything ready to present next week, we are delaying the presentations for one more week.

So the presentations should happen on 15 July and 22 July (possibly also 23 July if there is any overflow).

If anyone wants to volunteer to present on the first day (15 July), just let us know. Otherwise we will choose next week who presents on which date.

You should try to finish as many experiments as possible by 15 July so you can be ready to present.

Presentations should be kept under 10 minutes so we have more time for discussion.

Dear all,

as we have talked a lot about current research in fuzzing and testing, let me announce one of my own talks taking place this Thursday at 13:30:

    https://casa.rub.de/en/news/distinguished-lectures

The talk is all about automated testing and debugging techniques, and gives a nice overview on our latest and greatest recent research. And you may even see a few presentation ideas you haven't seen before. Enjoy!

Andreas Zeller

Hello,

We're scheduling these project proposal presentations tomorrow:

Florian Bauckholt: Lang Fuzzer

Bachir Bendrissou: Parser Directed Test Generation

Niklas Kempf: Concolic vs. Grammar Fuzzing

Tobias Lorig: Combining Generational and Mutational Fuzzing

These should be simple 10 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion about what you're planning to do for the project.

See you there!

Dear students,

   We have assigned topics based on your preferences (more than half of students got their first choice).
   Please find your topic assignments below.

1. Reducer : Moritz
2. Parser-Directed Test Generation (PDTG) vs uninstrumented : Bachir
3. Combining generational grammar-based fuzzing with mutational fuzzing : Tobias
4. Symbolic & Concolic fuzzer : Joshua
5. Lang fuzzer and plain grammar fuzzer : Florian
6. Grammar mining (string inclusion, taints, and mimid) : David
7. Concolic Fuzzing vs Grammar Fuzzing: Niklas
8. Grammar based GUI fuzzing : Matthias

Dear all,

as detailed in today's meeting, we would like to assign a topic to each of you. You can find the list of topics here:

    https://cms.cispa.saarland/fuzzing20/materials/

To express your preferences for an individual topic, please fill out this survey. Please use one "yes" vote (green checkmark) for the topic that interests you most, and up to two "if need be" votes (yellow checkmark in parentheses; tick the checkbox twice for these) for up to two follow-up topics. For your name, initials will suffice. Please use this link to cast your vote:

    https://doodle.com/poll/5izamentcm5xcm3r

Please cast your vote by Monday, May 18. Feel free to ask us any questions anytime!

Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you next Wednesday,

Andreas + Rafael + Rahul

Dear all,

Bad news: our co-instructor Rahul has fallen sick, and will be unavailable for the rest of the week. Hence, we cannot have our initial meeting this week as planned. Instead, we will have our first meeting next week. Please take a moment to pick the time that works best for you:

    https://doodle.com/poll/shx2g8863gxae48k

The time you indicate your availability will also hold for our recurring meetings in the next weeks, so check with your recurring (course) schedule. Please complete the schedule by Friday May 8 at the latest.

We will send additional instructions on the first meeting together with the format and expectations before the meeting, and on Monday at the latest. We very much look forward working with you!

Our apologies for the inconvenience, and see you next week,

Andreas (+ Rahul)

Welcome to the seminar on "Advanced Fuzzing Techniques"!

We will have a first (virtual) seminar meeting on Wednesday May 6 at 16:00.  Invites to the Zoom videoconference will be sent by mail before the meeting.

Looking forward to see you, and best wishes,

Rahul + Andreas