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Re:Null by jsrcout on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:14AM (#25773575)
One of my professors back in college loved to do that. "Shockingly effective" is exactly the right term. Learned a lot from that little exercise.
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Re:Null by jannes on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:15AM (#25774008)
This makes me wonder if there's a tool that can auto-generate random inputs and send them to the application. (maybe excluding Alt-Tab to avoid switching away from the application)

Fuzzing is a pretty popular testing technique for libraries, but GUI software has not seen the same attention.

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Re:Null by dgellow on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:12AM (#25774563)
GUI fuzzing is a thing, yes. I've seen it mostly on mobile apps but I'm sure you have it for other type of GUIs.

Example of tools: https://www.fuzzingbook.org/html/GUIFuzzer.html

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Re:Null by taneq on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:25AM (#25774660)
GUI fuzzing was a thing way back on the original Macintosh: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

Something similar should be reasonably easy to build these days using AutoHotKey or the like. I bet it's been done.

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