User:Softtest123/Fuzzing history

This is a draft to be relocated to Fuzz testing when it is good enough.

1988 -- Professor Barton Miller at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gives out Fuzz testing as an assignment to his students in his graduate Advanced Operating Systems class.{{cite web

| last = Miller

| first = Barton

| authorlink = Barton Miller

| coauthors =

| title = CS 736 Fuzzing project Assignment

| work =

| publisher = University of Wisconsin-Madison

| date = Fall 1988

| url = http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/CS736-Projects-f1988.pdf

| format = PDF

| doi =

| accessdate = 2008-10-14

}}

2001 -- Codenomicon is founded based upon the PROTOS test tool{{cite web

| last = University of Oulu

| first =

| authorlink = University of Oulu

| coauthors =

| title = PROTOS - Security Testing of Protocol Implementations

| work =

| publisher = University of Oulu

| date = 2007-01-05

| url = http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/

| format = HTML

| doi =

| accessdate = 2008-10-19

}}

research at the University of Oulu, Finland.{{cite web

| last = Codenomicon

| first =

| authorlink = Codenomicon

| coauthors =

| title = Company History and Overview

| work =

| publisher = Codenomicon

| date = 2007

| url = http://www.codenomicon.com/company/

| format = HTML

| doi =

| accessdate = 2008-10-19

}}

2002 -- Dr. Alan A. Jorgensen at the Florida Institute of Technology provides a detailed description of a fuzzing framework used to find numerous security defects in Adobe Acrobat Reader.{{cite journal

| last = Jorgensen

| first = Alan

| authorlink = Alan A. Jorgensen

| coauthors =

| title = Testing with Hostile Data Streams

| journal = ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

| volume = 28

| issue = 2

| pages = 9

| date = 2003

| url = http://www.cs.fit.edu/~tr/cs-2003-03.rtf

| doi =

| id =

| issn = 0163-5948

| accessdate = 2008-10-14

}}

This is an example of "In Memory" fuzzing.