AsiaCamp2011/Schedule/Product and Technology Track/FuzzingAtMozilla: Difference between revisions

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Speaker: David Dahl, Firefox Engineer
Time: TBD, TBD November 2011, Room TDB
Duration: ~ 35 minutes
Summary: Patch Firefox via your web development skills! The Firefox front end is mainly written in JavaScript. With a few pointers to documentation, irc channels and tools, you can fix a Firefox bug.
Presentation slides (to provide after you talk):
Ideal audience size: any size audience
Equipment needs (video projector already included): RGB connector to laptop
Submit a question for the speaker here:

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-== Fuzzing at Mozilla ==
+== From Web Developer to Firefox Hacker ==
-*'''Speaker''': Gary Kwong
+*'''Speaker''': David Dahl, Firefox Engineer
-*'''Time''': '''15:30''', 20 November 2011, Breakout Room 2
+*'''Time''': '''TBD''', TBD November 2011, Room TDB
 *'''Duration''': ~ 35 minutes
-*'''Summary''':  Fuzzing, a form of randomized testing, is an integral portion of the testing process at Mozilla. Crashes, hangs, assertions and various security problems, such as memory safety problems, are discovered through fuzzing. Drop by and listen to a high-level overview on how Mozilla makes use of fuzzing to discover these issues, in addition to how one can help out.
+*'''Summary''': Patch Firefox via your web development skills! The Firefox front end is mainly written in JavaScript. With a few pointers to documentation, irc channels and tools, you can fix a Firefox bug.
 *'''Presentation slides (to provide after you talk)''':
-*'''Ideal audience size''':
+*'''Ideal audience size''': any size audience
-*'''Equipment needs (video projector already included)''': HDMI connector to laptop
+*'''Equipment needs (video projector already included)''': RGB connector to laptop
 *'''Submit a question for the ''speaker'' here''':