Echidna-parade: A tool for diverse multicore smart contract fuzzing

Alex Groce, Gustavo Grieco

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11 Scopus citations

Abstract

Echidna is a widely used fuzzer for Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible blockchain smart contracts that generates transaction sequences of calls to smart contracts. While Echidna is an essentially single-threaded tool, it is possible for multiple Echidna processes to communicate by use of a shared transaction sequence corpus. Echidna provides a very large variety of configuration options, since each smart contract may be best-tested by a non-default configuration, and different faults or coverage targets within a single contract may also have differing ideal configurations. This paper presents echidna-parade, a tool that provides pushbutton multicore fuzzing using Echidna as an underlying fuzzing engine, and automatically provides sophisticated diversification of configurations. Even without using multiple cores, echidna-parade can improve the effectiveness of fuzzing with Echidna, due to the advantages provided by multiple types of test configuration diversity. Using echidna-parade with multiple cores can produce significantly better results than Echidna, in less time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
EditorsCristian Cadar, Xiangyu Zhang
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages658-661
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450384599
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 11 2021
Event30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2021 - Virtual, Online, Denmark
Duration: Jul 11 2021Jul 17 2021

Publication series

NameISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Conference

Conference30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2021
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/11/217/17/21

Keywords

  • Fuzzing
  • Smart contracts
  • Swarm testing
  • Test diversity
  • Test length

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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