Google uses ‘fuzzing’ to automate Chrome security tests

Google Chrome Security

With projects like Pwn2Own, Google has often made it apparent — to both users and developers — that it sees security as one of its highest priorities in regard to the Chrome browser. An update to The Chromium Blog introduces a security testing environment that it affectionately calls “ClusterFuzz.” The humorously named environment uses “fuzz testing,” or the distribution of millions of test cases across “several hundred” virtual machines to identify bugs en masse.

Google is stating that ClusterFuzz runs approximately 6,000 simultaneous Chrome in order to analyze crashes, identify patterns in bugs and exploits, and quickly seek out possible fixes. Exploring the specific tests and methodologies that ClusterFuzz employs can get…

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