Google Summer of Code 2022 Blog

This blog is intended to include all of my progress throughout the Google Summer of Code 2022. In this Google Summer of Code edition I will contribute to the RcppDeepState project for The R Project for Statistical Computing organization.

Project description

Fuzzing is a useful technique for finding and avoiding programming problems by sending programs invalid sets of non-deterministic inputs. The RcppDeepState package allows developers to perform fuzz testing on libraries that use Rcpp for some specific functionalities. The main purpose of this project is to provide a custom GitHub Action that makes it simple for developers to use RcppDeepState’s fuzzing techniques on any R package on GitHub. In addition, improvements to the existing RcppDeepState library will also be implemented in order to proceed with the publication of the package on CRAN.

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Project idea
Project description
RcppDeepState repository
RcppDeepState GitHub Action

Mentors

• Toby Hocking
• Randy Lai
• Anirban Chetia

Posts

• Summary of my GSOC experience

  The summary of my experience with GSOC and a brief recap of my work

  Sep 8, 2022

• ▸ Week 13 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in thirteenth week

  Sep 3, 2022

• Beta testing results

  The results of beta testing RcppDeepState-action

  Sep 2, 2022

• Issue with RcppDeepState-action beta test

  Solution for the problem that prevents the action from being run in remote pull requests.

  Aug 30, 2022

• ▸ Week 12 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in twelfth week

  Aug 27, 2022

• Beta test RcppDeepState-action on GitHub hosted CRAN packages

  RcppDeepState-action beta test on other packages

  Aug 23, 2022

• ▸ Week 11 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in eleventh week

  Aug 20, 2022

• ▸ Week 10 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in tenth week

  Aug 13, 2022

• Provide a custom test harness to RcppDeepState GitHub Action

  Guide to provide RcppDeepState-action a custom test harness for a function that cannot be analyzed.

  Aug 11, 2022

• ▸ Week 9 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in ninth week

  Aug 6, 2022

• ▸ Week 8 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in eighth week

  Jul 30, 2022

• Write a custom test harness for functions with unsupported datatypes

  Guide to write a custom test harness for a function that cannot be analyzed because of some datatypes falling outside of the supported ones.

  Jul 29, 2022

• GitHub action's execution time

  Description of the steps that I will follow this week to improve the GitHub action's execution time

  Jul 25, 2022

• ▸ Week 7 Summary

  Pull requests and changes made in seventh week

  Jul 16, 2022

• Moving to a composite GitHub Action

  Considerations review

  Jul 11, 2022