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afl [0] is awesome. I have it running right now. It found some of bugs in arachne-pnr [1].

I wish someone would do a JVM version (combined with the lines of QuickCheck and typed generators).

[1] https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr

As a Java programmer I would love a version of afl. The JVM certainly exposes enough information for other profilers/tracers and things dynamically adding code (spring/hibernate) that it seems like it should be possible.

There's a tool that does similar to AFL called EvoSuite (http://www.evosuite.org). It uses a genetic algorithm like AFL and generates JUnit suites for the target classes. It doesn't look for crashes like AFL - it's closer to MS's IntelliTest tool but uses metaheuristics instead of SMT to break conditions.

Completely random, but every time I read lcamtuf ... I read camltuf and think it's a caml subproject.

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