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GTAC Diversity Scholarship
Monday, May 22, 2017
by Lesley Katzen on behalf of the GTAC Diversity Committee
We are committed to increasing diversity at GTAC, and we believe the best way to do that is by making sure we have a diverse set of applicants to speak and attend. As part of that commitment, we are excited to announce that we will be offering travel scholarships again this year.
Travel scholarships will be available for selected applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups in technology.
To be eligible for a grant to attend GTAC, applicants must:
Be 18 years of age or older.
Be from a traditionally underrepresented group in technology.
Work or study in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a technical field related to software testing.
Be able to attend core dates of GTAC, November 14th - 15th 2017 in London, England.
To apply:
You must fill out the following scholarship
form
and
register
for GTAC to be considered for a travel scholarship.
The deadline for submission is July 1st. Scholarship recipients will be announced on August 15th. If you are selected, we will contact you with information on how to proceed with booking travel.
What the scholarship covers:
Google will pay for round-trip standard coach class airfare to London for selected scholarship recipients, and 3 nights of accommodations in a hotel near the Google King's Cross campus. Breakfast and lunch will be provided for GTAC attendees and speakers on both days of the conference. We will also provide a £75.00 gift card for other incidentals such as airport transportation or meals. You will need to provide your own credit card to cover any hotel incidentals.
Google is dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at:
https://www.google.com/events/policy/anti-harassmentpolicy.html
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GTAC 2017 - Registration is open!
Monday, May 15, 2017
by Diego Cavalcanti on behalf of the GTAC 2017 Committee
The Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) is an annual test automation conference hosted by Google. It brings together engineers from industry and academia to discuss advances in test automation and the test engineering computer science field. It is a great opportunity to present, learn, and challenge modern testing technologies and strategies.
We are pleased to announce that this year, GTAC will be held in Google's
London
office on
November 14th and 15th, 2017
.
Registration is currently
OPEN
for attendees and speakers. See more information
here
.
The schedule for the upcoming months is as follows:
May 15, 2017
- Registration opens for
speakers and attendees
, including applicants for the
diversity scholarship
.
July 1, 2017
- Registration closes for speaker submissions.
July 15, 2017
- Registration closes for attendee submissions.
August 15, 2017
- Selected speakers and attendees will be notified.
November 13, 2017
- Rehearsal day for speakers (not open for attendees).
November 14-15, 2017
- GTAC 2017!
As part of our efforts to increase diversity of speakers and attendees at GTAC, we will again be offering travel scholarships for selected applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups in technology. Please find more information
here
.
Please do not hesitate to contact
gtac2017@google.com
if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in London!
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OSS-Fuzz: Five Months Later, and Rewarding Projects
Monday, May 08, 2017
By Oliver Chang, Abhishek Arya (Security Engineers, Chrome Security), Kostya Serebryany (Software Engineer, Dynamic Tools), and Josh Armour (Security Program Manager)
Five months ago, we
announced
OSS-Fuzz
, Google's effort to help make open source software more secure and stable. Since then, our robot army has been working hard at
fuzzing
, processing 10 trillion test inputs a day. Thanks to the efforts of the open source community who have integrated a total of
47
projects, we've found over
1,000
bugs (
264
of which are potential security vulnerabilities).
Breakdown of the types of bugs we're finding
Notable results
OSS-Fuzz has found numerous security vulnerabilities in several critical open source projects:
10
in FreeType2,
17
in FFmpeg,
33
in LibreOffice,
8
in SQLite 3,
10
in GnuTLS,
25
in PCRE2,
9
in gRPC, and
7
in Wireshark. We've also had at least one bug collision with another independent security researcher (
CVE-2017-2801
). (Some of the bugs are still view-restricted so links may show smaller numbers.)
Once a project is integrated into OSS-Fuzz, the continuous and automated nature of OSS-Fuzz means that we often catch these issues just hours after the regression is introduced into the upstream repository, so that the chances of users being affected is reduced.
Fuzzing not only finds memory safety related bugs, it can also find correctness or logic bugs. One example is a carry propagating bug in OpenSSL (
CVE-2017-3732
).
Finally, OSS-Fuzz has reported over 300
timeout and out-of-memory failures
(~75% of which got fixed). Not every project treats these as bugs, but fixing them enables OSS-Fuzz to find more interesting bugs.
Announcing rewards for open source projects
We believe that user and internet security as a whole can benefit greatly if more open source projects include fuzzing in their development process. To this end, we'd like to encourage more projects to participate and adopt the
ideal integration
guidelines that we've established.
Combined with fixing all the issues that are found, this is often a significant amount of work for developers who may be working on an open source project in their spare time. To support these projects, we are expanding our existing
Patch Rewards
program to include rewards for the integration of
fuzz targets
into OSS-Fuzz.
To qualify for these rewards, a project needs to have a large user base and/or be critical to global IT infrastructure. Eligible projects will receive $1,000 for initial integration, and up to $20,000 for ideal integration (the final amount is at our discretion). You have the option of donating these rewards to charity instead, and Google will double the amount.
To qualify for the ideal integration reward, projects must show that:
Fuzz targets are checked into their upstream repository and integrated in the build system with
sanitizer
support (up to $5,000).
Fuzz targets are
efficient
and provide good code coverage (>80%) (up to $5,000).
Fuzz targets are part of the official upstream development and regression testing process, i.e. they are maintained, run against old known crashers and the periodically updated
corpora
(up to $5,000).
The last $5,000 is a "
l33t
" bonus that we may reward at our discretion for projects that we feel have gone the extra mile or done something really awesome.
We've already started to contact the first round of projects that are eligible for the initial reward. If you are the maintainer or point of contact for one of these projects, you may also
reach out
to us in order to apply for our ideal integration rewards.
The future
We'd like to thank the existing contributors who integrated their projects and fixed countless bugs. We hope to see more projects integrated into OSS-Fuzz, and greater adoption of fuzzing as standard practice when developing software.
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