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# Glossary
Naming things is hard, so this page tries to reduce confusion around fuzzing related terminology.
## Corpus
Or **test corpus**, or **fuzzing corpus**.<BR>
A set of [test inputs](#test-input). In most contexts, it is also referred to a set of minimal test inputs that generate maximal code coverage.
## Fuzz Target
Or **Target Function**, or **Fuzzing Target Function**, or **Fuzzing Entry Point**.<BR>
A function to which we apply fuzzing. A [specific signature](http://libfuzzer.info#fuzz-target) is required for OSS-Fuzz.
Examples: [openssl](https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/fuzz/x509.c),
[re2](https://github.com/google/re2/blob/master/re2/fuzzing/re2_fuzzer.cc),
[SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/ad79e867fb504338).
A fuzz target can be used to [reproduce bug reports](reproducing.md).
It is recommended to use it for regression testing as well (see [ideal integration](ideal_integration.md)).
## Fuzzer
The most overloaded term and used in a variety of contexts, which makes it bad.
Sometimes, "Fuzzer" is referred to a [fuzz target](#fuzz-target),
a [fuzzing engine](#fuzzing-engine),
a [mutation engine](#mutation-engine),
a [test generator](#test-generator) or
a [fuzzer build](#job-type).
## Fuzzing Engine
A tool that tries to find interesting inputs for a [fuzz target](#fuzz-target) by executing it.
Examples: [libFuzzer](http://libfuzzer.info),
[AFL](lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/),
[honggfuzz](https://github.com/google/honggfuzz), etc
See related terms [Mutation Engine](#mutation-engine) and [Test Generator](#test-generator).
## Job type
Or **Fuzzer Build**.<BR>
A [ClusterFuzz](clusterfuzz.md) specific term.
This refers to a build that contains all the [fuzz targets](#fuzz-target) for a given [project](#project), is run
with a specific [fuzzing engine](#fuzzing-engine), in a specific build mode (e.g. with enabled/disabled assertions),
and optionally combined with a [sanitizer](#sanitizer).
For example, we have a "libfuzzer_asan_sqlite" job type, indicating a build of all sqlite3 [fuzz targets](#fuzz-target) using
[libFuzzer](http://libfuzzer.info) and [ASan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html).
## Mutation Engine
A tool that takes a set of testcases as input and creates their mutated versions.
It is just a generator and does not feed the mutations to [fuzz target](#fuzz-target).
Example: [radamsa](https://github.com/aoh/radamsa) (a generic test mutator).
## Project
A project is an open source software that is integrated with OSS-Fuzz.
Each project has a single set of configuration files
(example: [expat](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/expat)) and
may have one or more [fuzz targets](#fuzz-target)
(example: [openssl](https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/fuzz/)).
## Reproducer
Or a **testcase**.<BR>
A [test input](#test-input) that causes a specific bug to reproduce.
## [Sanitizer](https://github.com/google/sanitizers)
A [dynamic testing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_testing) tool that can detect bugs during program execution.
Examples:
[ASan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html),
[DFSan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/DataFlowSanitizer.html),
[LSan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LeakSanitizer.html),
[MSan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/MemorySanitizer.html),
[TSan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html),
[UBSan](http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html).
## Test Generator
A tool that generates testcases from scratch according to some rules or grammar.
Examples:
[csmith](https://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/) (a test generator for C language),
[cross_fuzz](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/) (a cross-document DOM binding test generator).
## Test Input
A sequence of bytes that is used as input to a [fuzz target](#fuzz-target).
Typicaly, a test input is stored in a separate file.
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