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Fuzz testing

Fuzz testing

Posted Sep 21, 2006 9:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Fuzz testing

Of course fuzzing is useful elsewhere as well. In general it's useful whenever you've written something with an interface complex enough that a total-coverage test is impractical: in some cases there are so many edge cases that you can't even test all of those: but you surely can fuzz them.

I'd say that 30--40% of the testcases I write for code I've written are fuzz tests of some description, but almost none of them are looking for potential security holes per se: just plain old bugs.


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