The following points intend to justify why fuzz tests are popular among the software professional community:
- They are extremely simple, easy, cost-effective, and quick to set up as they are free of preconceptions about system behavior
- Their one-time setup is easy to repeat for regression (automation)
- As it is a protocol-aware test, test results lead to finding precise, descriptive, and easy-to-debug errors
- They enables you to find bugs that are impossible to find with the human eye in defined testing or approach-based testing
- They yields the best results when used in conjunction with black-box testing, beta testing, and other debugging methods
While fuzz tests bring many advantages to the table, ...