From 3997794877d7b9396c81a3eae8f24f49aefa6129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kostya Serebryany Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:49:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update glossary.md --- docs/glossary.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/glossary.md b/docs/glossary.md index d94c8e4c0..f5f16678d 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.md +++ b/docs/glossary.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ TODO Naming things is hard. This page tries to reduce confusion around naming. -## Fuzz Target** +## Fuzz Target Or **Target Function** or **Fuzzing Target Function**.
A function to which we apply fuzzing. A [specific signature](libfuzzer.info#fuzz-target) must be used for OSS-Fuzz. @@ -14,4 +14,30 @@ Examples: [openssl](https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/fuzz/x509.c), A Fuzz Target can and should also be used for regression testing and for reproducing bug reports, see [ideal integration](ideal_integration.md). -* **Fuzzing Engine** a program that tries to find interesting inputs +## Fuzzing Engine + +A program that tries to find interesting inputs for a Fuzz Target by executing it. +Examples: [libFuzzer](http://lbfuzzer.info), +[AFL](lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/), +[honggfuzz](https://github.com/google/honggfuzz), etc + +See also [#mutation-engine] and [#test-generator]. + +## Test Input +Or **reproducer**, or **testcase**. +A sequence of bytes that is used as the input to a Fuzz Target. + +## Mutation Engine +A tool that take a set of testcases +and creates their mutations, but do not directly feed the mutations to Fuzz Targets. +Example [Radamsa](https://github.com/aoh/radamsa), + +## Test Generator +A tool that generates testcases + +## Fuzzer + +The most overloaded term, which makes it bad (maybe, we should try avoiding it?). +Sometimes the "Fuzzer" is referred to a Fuzz Target, sometimes to a Fuzzing Engine, Mutation Engine, or a Test Generator. +Sometimes to a binary built from a Fuzz Target using some of the Fuzzing Engine and optionally with some dynamic testing tool. +