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Fuzz testing

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, fuzz testing means: Trying many automatically generated or modified inputs to expose crashes, security weaknesses or other unexpected behavior.

In Turkish: bulanık test, fuzz testi

How it is used

Also called fuzzing. Often applied to parsers; inputs may be random, structured or guided by observed execution.

Example sentences

  1. During fuzz testing, we found an image header that crashed the thumbnail decoder.

    Generated file variations reached a case that ordinary valid-image tests missed.

  2. We added valid seed documents before running fuzz testing on the parser.

    Starting from valid examples can help mutations reach deeper parsing logic.

Common collocations

  • fuzz testing campaign
  • coverage-guided fuzz testing
  • automated testingUsing code and tools to run tests automatically and compare the results with what is expected, so they can be repeated quickly after every change.
  • crashTo stop working suddenly because of an error, so that the program closes or stops responding. Also a noun: 'a crash'.

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