From cbbfe3980a24f4ac5a2480a2c086366ecc4e6262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Chang Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:39:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation about seed corpora --- docs/new_library.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/new_library.md b/docs/new_library.md index 6e6bb7925..a14f17584 100644 --- a/docs/new_library.md +++ b/docs/new_library.md @@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ Put your dict files in `/out` and specify them in .options file: dict = dictionary_name.dict ``` +### Seed corpora + +You can also pass a set of initial seed files to your fuzzers. This is typically +a set of valid inputs to the target function you are testing, and can improve +coverage significantly. + +This can be done by zipping up these files, naming them +`fuzzer_name_seed_corpus.zip`, and placing them in `/out` in your build script. + ## Jenkinsfile This file will be largely the same for most libraries, and is used by our build