Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to software test with automated configurable harness capabilities. Certain example embodiments automatically generate harnesses and properly encoded seed inputs by recording the input operations of a system under test (SUT), identifying the processes to be fuzz tested, generating seed inputs and a manifest describing the SUT's input vectors, and generating the harness to effectively feed derived (and potentially “malformed”) input to the SUT. The techniques described herein may be used to test a computer system, e.g., to probe for potential vulnerabilities.