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A date 6 months in the future is not invalid or off; it is a normal input that the program is expected to receive in the future. Fuzzing would be testing the d
by azernik 5y ago
A date 6 months in the future is not invalid or off; it is a normal input that the program is expected to receive in the future.
Fuzzing would be testing the date parser by passing it '25-44-2021' to see what breaks.
- jacquesm 5y agoIndeed. But you probably meant to address the parent, rather than my comment.
- azernik 5y agoBlerp
- pimlottc 5y agoFuzzing inputs don’t necessarily have to be invalid, just dynamically generated in order to probe program states not normally exercised by manually generated test data. Per Wikipedia: “providing invalid, unexpected or random data as inputs”