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One of my professors back in college loved to do that. "Shockingly effective" is exactly the right term. Learned a lot from that little exercise.
by jsrcout 6y ago
One of my professors back in college loved to do that. "Shockingly effective" is exactly the right term. Learned a lot from that little exercise.
- jannes 6y agoThis makes me wonder if there's a tool that can auto-generate random inputs and send them to the application. (maybe excluding Alt-Tab to avoid switching away from the application) Fuzzing is a pretty popular testing technique for libraries, but GUI software has not seen the same attention.
- dgellow 6y agoGUI fuzzing is a thing, yes. I've seen it mostly on mobile apps but I'm sure you have it for other type of GUIs. Example of tools: https://www.fuzzingbook.org/html/GUIFuzzer.html https://www.fuzzingbook.org/html/GUIFuzzer.html
- taneq 6y agoGUI fuzzing was a thing way back on the original Macintosh: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Monkey_Lives.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... Something similar should be reasonably easy to build these days using AutoHotKey or the like. I bet it's been done.