I noted just as I sent my previous posting with two references to fuzz-test papers that the abstract of the second mentions two earlier ones. I've just tracked them down, and added them to various bibliographies. Here are short references to them: Fuzz Revisited: A Re-examination of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities and Services ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/techreports/1995/TR1268.pdf An Empirical Study of the Robustness of MacOS Applications Using Random Testing http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1228291.1228308 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------