Before I started in infosec I was a software tester for a year in the mid-90s. We called this kind of testing “monkey testing” and usually spent some time on i

Before I started in infosec I was a software tester for a year in the mid-90s. We called this kind of testing “monkey testing” and usually spent some time on it because it turned up lots of bugs, both code bugs and design/usability bugs. One time I delayed our product’s launch by a day because I found a crashing bug in the “about” dialog (missing handler for keyboard shortcut). I also usually spent a few minutes in each UI page doing a test I called “spaz clicking” which, just like it sounds, consisted of just randomly clicking as fast as I could and moving the mouse around. Surprising how many bugs you’d find that way.