Commit f62bf951 authored by Russell Dickenson's avatar Russell Dickenson

Add description of fuzz testing steps

parent 3d1fac55
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and your own test processes. If you're using [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/index.md),
you can run your coverage-guided fuzz tests as part your CI/CD workflow.
## Coverage-guided fuzz testing process
The fuzz testing process:
1. Compiles the target application.
1. Runs the instrumented application, using the `gitlab-cov-fuzz` tool.
1. Parses and analyzes the exception information output by the fuzzer.
1. Downloads the [corpus](../terminology/index.md#corpus) and crash events from previous pipelines.
1. Outputs the parsed crash events and data to the `gl-coverage-fuzzing-report.json` file.
The results of the coverage-guided fuzz testing are available in the CI/CD pipeline.
## Supported fuzzing engines and languages
GitLab supports these languages through the fuzzing engine listed for each. We currently provide a
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