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 "Fuzzing databases is difficult" ( 2025 )

Saturday at 14:00, 25 minutes, UD6.215, UD6.215, Testing and Continuous Delivery Pedro Ferreira , slides , video

After fuzzing databases for the last 3 years, I learned that simple design decisions on a fuzzer impact on the issues it can ever find. In this talk I would to address some of those decisions. As an example, I would to discuss about the design of BuzzHouse, a new database fuzzer to test ClickHouse.

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