GitHub Action for Go fuzz testing. This Action runs Go's built-in fuzz testing, added in Go 1.18, on your code.
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fuzz-time[REQUIRED]: Fuzz target iteration duration, specified as atime.Duration(for example1h30s). Corresponds to-fuzztimeflag for thego testcommand. Ensure this is less than your job/workflow timeout.packages[optional]: Run fuzz test on these packages. Corresponds to the[packages]input for thego testcommand.- Default:
.
- Default:
fuzz-regexp[optional]: Run the fuzz test matching the regular expression. Corresponds to the-fuzzflag for thego testcommand.- Default:
Fuzz
- Default:
fuzz-minimize-time[optional]: Fuzz minimization duration, specified as atime.Duration(for example1h30s). Corresponds to-fuzzminimizetimeflag for thego testcommand. If you provide this input, ensure it is less than your job timeout.- Default:
10s
- Default:
go-version[optional]: Which version of Go to use for fuzzing. This will be passed on toactions/setup-go@v3.- Default:
1.18
- Default:
- SUCCESS: if your fuzz tests don't raise a failure within the
fuzz-timeinput constraint. - FAILURE: if your fuzz tests raise a failure within the
fuzz-timeinput constraint.- The workflow run logs will include instructions on how to download (using the GitHub CLI) the failing seed corpus to your local machine for remediation, regardless of run trigger.
- If you run this Action in a PR workflow, it'll comment these instructions on your PR:

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Create a .github/workflows/go-fuzz-test.yml in your repository containing:
name: Go fuzz test
on:
push:
pull_request:
jobs:
fuzz-test:
name: Fuzz test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: jidicula/go-fuzz-action@v1.1.0
with:
fuzz-time: 30sIf you have multiple packages in your repo and you want to fuzz test them all, create a .github/workflows/go-fuzz-test.yml in your repository containing:
name: Go fuzz test
on:
push:
pull_request:
jobs:
fuzz-test:
name: Fuzz test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: jidicula/go-fuzz-action@v1.1.0
with:
packages: './...'
fuzz-time: 30sIf you want the fuzz test to spend more time on minimizing the failing input to the smallest possible and most human readable value which will still produce an error, create a .github/workflows/go-fuzz-test.yml in your repository containing:
name: Go fuzz test
on:
push:
pull_request:
jobs:
fuzz-test:
name: Fuzz test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: jidicula/go-fuzz-action@v1.1.0
with:
packages: './...'
fuzz-time: 30s
fuzz-minimize-time: 1mIf you have fuzz tests that don't begin with Fuzz (the default regexp), create a .github/workflows/go-fuzz-test.yml in your repository containing:
name: Go fuzz test
on:
push:
pull_request:
jobs:
fuzz-test:
name: Fuzz test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: jidicula/go-fuzz-action@main
with:
packages: './...'
fuzz-time: 30s
fuzz-minimize-time: 1m
fuzz-regexp: OtherFuzzRegexpI haven't figured out how to test this adequately within this repo, so you can verify its behaviour here: jidicula/test-go-fuzz-action#2
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