Google has announced a “milestone” update to the Go programming language with the launch of Go 1.18, which introduces native support for fuzz testing – the first major programming language to do so.
As Google explains, fuzz testing or ‘fuzzing’ is a means of testing the vulnerability of a piece of software by throwing arbitrary or invalid data at it to expose bugs and unknown errors.
This adds an additional layer of security to Go’s code that will keep it protected as its functionality evolves – crucial as attacks on software continue to escalate both in frequency and complexity.
