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Aug 2021
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Episode 474: Paul Butcher on Fuzz Testin...

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Paul Butcher of AdaCore discusses Fuzz Testing, an automated testing technique used to find security vulnerabilities and other software flaws. Host Philip Winston spoke with Butcher about negative testing, brute-force fuzz testing...

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