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APL has a primitive for generating random sequences and I'm pretty sure I've seen toy examples of it being used to characterise functions; the story here may ha
by 082349872349872 3y ago
APL has a primitive for generating random sequences and I'm pretty sure I've seen toy examples of it being used to characterise functions; the story here may have been the origin of "fuzz testing" under that name but it would not surprise me at all to find 1960s computer use (or 1950s cybernetic use, or even 1930s radio use?) under a different name.
- drewcoo 3y agoI know I was interested in random noise inputs and test oracles that could classify them into known equivalence classes for inputs/outputs as a way to verify equivalence class boundaries. That was in the 90s. But it's an example of similar stuff that's not "fuzz testing," per se.