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Fuzzing in the standard library

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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The Importance of a Good Set of Regression Tests

Having a good set of regression tests really reduces the amount of fear and anxiety and software development. So yeah, I completely agree. Does the fuzzing stuff interface in any way with current unit tests that you've written? Or is this kind of like new, completely new sort of values you have to start at the beginning? The nice thing about the F.Fuzz function is that it doesn't take a testing.F that takes a testing.T. And then you can call things like F.add to add a new corpus entry, or maybe F.clean up if you need some cleanup to run at the end.

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