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A fuzzer can literally run forever. However, as more resources are spent, the coverage rate continuously drops, and the utility of the fuzzer declines. To tackle this coverage-resource tradeoff, we could introduce a policy to stop a campaign whenever the coverage rate drops below a certain threshold value, say 10 new branches covered per 15 minutes. During the campaign, can we predict the coverage rate at some point in the future? If so, how well can we predict the future coverage rate as the prediction horizon or the current campaign length increases? How can we tackle the statistical challenge of adaptive bias, which is inherent in greybox fuzzing (i.e., samples are not independent and identically distributed)?
Liyanage et al. (Fri,) studied this question.