Chapter 11: Automated Fuzzing with CMake

Software testing is crucial for ensuring that a software system behaves as expected. Unsurprisingly, the need for scenario-based testing strategies is still at its peak. But the scenario-based approach often does not suffice. The real world is wild. Things out there are not sterile as in a test environment. Many different variables contribute to a software's behavior. Environments, users, hardware, operating systems, or third-party libraries can affect software unexpectedly. As software becomes more extensive, it becomes painfully hard to come up with a testing suite that covers all possible aspects of it. Therefore, the need for a technique that performs the unexpected arises. Thankfully, fuzzing comes to the rescue.

In this chapter, we will learn the basics of fuzzing and learn how to use this technique to test our software to make it more reliable. Furthermore, we will learn how we can integrate fuzzing tools into CMake to easily...