Ensuring code works in the wild

Software Development
Posted by Anonymous on Mar 10, 2025

After you write code, there is always a possibility that you will run into bugs. It is a stressful for the development team and the customer when that happens, since the customer can't get work done, and the team can panic getting a patch out. There are tests you can write, but it's difficult to make comprehensive tests with good coverage. Using penetration testing is similar. Plus, if you re-write or re-implement the code, the tests can get outdated, which means you must rewrite it.

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Anonymous
Mar 10, 2025 at 07:16 PM

Maybe we can have a AI test the code. Such as an AI Pen tester that generates fuzzing on inputs to try to break the sanitizers.

Anonymous
Mar 10, 2025 at 07:17 PM

It can also rely on generating its own tooling (i.e. Python functions) so that it doesn't waste LLM calls to create 100 A's to cause overflow.

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