of the Security Now!
podcast discusses fuzz testing
. Wikipedia defines it as:
Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a software testing technique that provides invalid, unexpected, or random data to the inputs of a program. If the program fails (for example, by crashing or failing built-in code assertions), the defects can be noted.
Perl has a strong history of automated tests
, and I expected that perl and CPAN
would have something to offer on fuzz testing
, but a brief search revealed no relevant modules, tools or documentation. Does the nature of perl (i.e. being an interpreted language) make fuzz testing
less relevant than e.g. web browsers or operating systems?
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