Fuzzing Glossary
Browse 3 fuzzing terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Fuzzing Terms
- Black Box Fuzzing
- Fuzz testing performed without internal knowledge of the target's source code or structure, relying instead on observed inputs and outputs. It is useful for...
- Fuzzer
- A tool that automatically feeds large volumes of malformed, unexpected, or randomly varied input into software to uncover crashes, hangs, memory corruption, or...
- Protocol Fuzzing
- Fuzz testing aimed at network or file protocols by sending malformed, unexpected, or state-breaking inputs to parsers and implementations. Protocol fuzzing is...
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