fuzzing
Fuzzing is an automated testing technique that feeds large volumes of random or malformed input to a program to find bugs and security flaws.
Fuzzing is a software testing technique in which a tool automatically generates inputs, runs them through a program and watches for crashes or unexpected behavior. It is good at finding edge cases that people rarely think of in advance and is widely used to hunt for security vulnerabilities.
A variant called differential fuzzing feeds the same inputs to different implementations of the same functionality and compares their outputs to find where behavior diverges. It is used when code is ported to another language or reimplemented.
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Across 46 test runs and 24 hours of fuzzing—automated testing that exercises software with varied inputs—the mutations falsified 11 properties and exposed three…