diff --git a/benchmark.js b/benchmark.js
index 6a496e9..4fa2de5 100644
--- a/benchmark.js
+++ b/benchmark.js
@@ -3,21 +3,22 @@ import { snappyUncompressor } from 'hysnappy'
 import { parquetRead } from './src/hyparquet.js'
 
 const url = 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia/resolve/main/20231101.en/train-00000-of-00041.parquet'
+const filename = 'example.parquet'
 
 // download test parquet file if needed
-let stat = await fs.stat('example.parquet').catch(() => undefined)
+let stat = await fs.stat(filename).catch(() => undefined)
 if (!stat) {
   console.log('downloading ' + url)
   const res = await fetch(url)
   if (!res.ok) throw new Error(res.statusText)
   // write to file async
-  const writeStream = createWriteStream('example.parquet')
+  const writeStream = createWriteStream(filename)
   for await (const chunk of res.body) {
     writeStream.write(chunk)
   }
   writeStream.end()
   console.log('downloaded example.parquet')
-  stat = await fs.stat('example.parquet').catch(() => undefined)
+  stat = await fs.stat(filename).catch(() => undefined)
 }
 
 // asyncBuffer
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ const file = {
   byteLength: stat.size,
   async slice(start, end) {
     // read file slice
-    const readStream = createReadStream('example.parquet', { start, end })
+    const readStream = createReadStream(filename, { start, end })
     const buffer = await readStreamToArrayBuffer(readStream)
     return new Uint8Array(buffer).buffer
   },
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 63b9a6f..04f1563 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "types": "src/hyparquet.d.ts",
   "scripts": {
-    "coverage": "vitest run --coverage",
+    "coverage": "vitest run --coverage --coverage.include=src",
     "demo": "http-server -o",
     "lint": "eslint .",
     "test": "vitest run",
@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "20.12.7",
-    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "7.6.0",
-    "@vitest/coverage-v8": "1.4.0",
+    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "7.7.0",
+    "@vitest/coverage-v8": "1.5.0",
     "eslint": "8.57.0",
     "eslint-plugin-import": "2.29.1",
     "eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "48.2.3",
     "http-server": "14.1.1",
     "hysnappy": "0.3.0",
     "typescript": "5.4.5",
-    "vitest": "1.4.0"
+    "vitest": "1.5.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/metadata.js b/src/metadata.js
index e5ba68f..249eb2c 100644
--- a/src/metadata.js
+++ b/src/metadata.js
@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ import { deserializeTCompactProtocol } from './thrift.js'
  * @returns {Promise<FileMetaData>} parquet metadata object
  */
 export async function parquetMetadataAsync(asyncBuffer, initialFetchSize = 1 << 19 /* 512kb */) {
-  if (!asyncBuffer) throw new Error('parquet asyncBuffer is required')
+  if (!asyncBuffer) throw new Error('parquet file is required')
+  if (!(asyncBuffer.byteLength >= 0)) throw new Error('parquet file byteLength is required')
 
   // fetch last bytes (footer) of the file
   const footerOffset = Math.max(0, asyncBuffer.byteLength - initialFetchSize)
-  const footerBuffer = await asyncBuffer.slice(footerOffset)
+  const footerBuffer = await asyncBuffer.slice(footerOffset, asyncBuffer.byteLength)
 
   // Check for parquet magic number "PAR1"
   const footerView = new DataView(footerBuffer)
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ export async function parquetMetadataAsync(asyncBuffer, initialFetchSize = 1 <<
  * @returns {FileMetaData} parquet metadata object
  */
 export function parquetMetadata(arrayBuffer) {
-  if (!arrayBuffer) throw new Error('parquet arrayBuffer is required')
+  if (!arrayBuffer) throw new Error('parquet file is required')
   const view = new DataView(arrayBuffer)
 
   // Validate footer magic number "PAR1"
diff --git a/test/metadata.test.js b/test/metadata.test.js
index 539970f..6dd062a 100644
--- a/test/metadata.test.js
+++ b/test/metadata.test.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ describe('parquetMetadata', () => {
 
   it('throws for arrayBuffer undefined', () => {
     // @ts-expect-error testing invalid input
-    expect(() => parquetMetadata(undefined)).toThrow('parquet arrayBuffer is required')
+    expect(() => parquetMetadata(undefined)).toThrow('parquet file is required')
   })
 
   it('throws for a too short file', () => {
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ describe('parquetMetadataAsync', () => {
   it('throws for asyncBuffer undefined', async () => {
     const arrayBuffer = undefined
     await expect(parquetMetadataAsync(arrayBuffer)).rejects
-      .toThrow('parquet asyncBuffer is required')
+      .toThrow('parquet file is required')
   })
 
   it('throws for invalid magic number', async () => {
diff --git a/test/read.test.js b/test/read.test.js
index 7f2bf32..9644d4a 100644
--- a/test/read.test.js
+++ b/test/read.test.js
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ describe('parquetRead', () => {
       .rejects.toThrow('parquet file is required')
   })
 
+  it('throws error for undefined byteLength', async () => {
+    const file = { byteLength: undefined, slice: () => new ArrayBuffer(0) }
+    await expect(parquetRead({ file }))
+      .rejects.toThrow('parquet file byteLength is required')
+  })
+
   it('filter by row', async () => {
     const file = fileToAsyncBuffer('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
     await parquetRead({