Fuzzing in addition to Unit Tests – via: David Millington G+
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/11
I need to give this link from Jonathan Lange which was shared by David Millington some thought:
There they add fuzzers to help testing an ADT: in this case an Abstract Data Type in the form of a red-black tree.
And then see if it can be added to DUnit and NUnit or MSTest/VSTest in some way.
In the original post by Jonathan Lange, an important remark was made by Eric Castelijn:
… the downside being that having non deterministic tests means having test failures that are hard to repeat
…
When fuzzing multiple or composite values, the chances that you will hit interesting edge cases semi-reliably will drop dramatically, in my experience
–jeroen
via “This post has two points. First, you should write ADT fuzzers. It is often….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDHFF4wjWYU
Eric said
That fuzzing uses random does not means it has to be non-deterministic: just record the random seed before a test.
jpluimers said
Indeed. I should have made that clear.