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cestlemieux.bsky.social
now: Assistant Professing™ in Software Practices Lab at UBC. was: postdoc MSR NYC, phd UC Berkeley. also at https://mastodon.acm.org/@cestlemieux. she/her.
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A common follow-up, whenever we bring up parametric generators is "but can't those byte-level mutations result in a totally different generated input?" ....they do, but our experiments found those more destructive mutations generally lead to higher coverage. Our students fully explored this in:

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

after years of fuzzing libxml2 I am happy to announce I have now actually used xmllint

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I was today days old when I learned that IEEETran format has special figure captions overwritten by \usepackage{subcaption}; instead one should use \usepackage[caption=false]{subfig}. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Back from #ICSE25! I'm looking forward to reading "No Harness, No Problem: Oracle-guided Harnessing for Auto-generating C API Fuzzing Harnesses", by @gabriel-sherman.bsky.social and @snagycs.bsky.social.(users.cs.utah.edu/~snagy/paper...). Nice progress in fuzz driver generation!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Finally added a little logo for QuAC (our attribute-based python type inference tool, paper: doi.org/10.1145/3689... + repo: github.com/jifengwu2k/q...) to my website :).

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

There's still time to submit to FUZZING'25! This year, we're accepting both the (now classic) registered reports _and_ new short papers (fuzzing nuggets). Deadline is now March 26th! fuzzingworkshop.github.io

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments