How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?

Re:How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to lea... by throwaway2037 on Monday December 02, 2024 @04:43AM (#42294611)

What percent of developers do you think are actively using fuzzing? I would be shocked if more than 1%. Please do not read this as I do not think fuzzing is important! It is very important for system-level software.

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Re:How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to lea... by Joel_Mckay on Monday December 02, 2024 @07:39AM (#42295612)

I often include valgrind tests before Beta releases, as it is usually going to point out suspect areas needing inspection.

Fuzzing is only really useful for a very narrow range of analysis scenarios. If people understand threading properly: code should be able to take getting hammered, exiting gracefully, and cleanly get re-instantiated.

Also, banning hosts/accounts with an error-rate quota system is more common these days. =3

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Re:How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to lea... by tsegratis on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:52AM (#42317408)

many languages gracefully handle errors, making those errors transparent to automated detection -- our crashes are now silent correctness failures

this trend in programming culture reduces our ability to do automated error detection!

you make a good point, and a good case for crash early and crash often -- with choice of erlang style recovery, or fuzzing style hard nosed correctness enforcement

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