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Re:Test-Case Reducers are Fuzzers by gowan on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:59AM (#10688713)
how does this compare to delta debugging[1]?

[1] https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/papers/tse2002/tse2002.pdf

Re:Test-Case Reducers are Fuzzers by regehr on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:54AM (#10688849)
Delta Debugging provided a name and a generic algorithm for something that people had already been doing, but they hadn't been calling it anything and hadn't formulated it as an abstract problem.

DD just removes stuff. C-Reduce does lots more, such as inlining functions, rewriting the class hierarchy, instantiating templates, ...

More: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/527