noun
- a software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to a computer program
Usage: computing; technical
verb
- present participle of fuzz: becoming fuzzy or covered with fuzz
- present participle of fuzz: performing fuzz testing on software
Usage: computing; technical
Examples
- The security team used fuzzing to discover vulnerabilities in the application.
- Fuzzing helped identify several buffer overflow errors in the code.
- The peach is fuzzing as it ripens on the tree.
- The old photograph was fuzzing around the edges.
- They spent weeks fuzzing the new software before release.
- Automated fuzzing tools can test thousands of input combinations.
- The fabric was fuzzing after multiple washes.