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by inetknght 3186 days ago
...now enter fuzz testing and your first statement goes out the window.
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Fuzz testing is far, far easier and more complete if you have the source code. It is not required to have the source to fuzz, but white-box fuzzing can be combined with code coverage analysis to make sure you hit all code paths, including ones that would rely upon a more structured sequencing of the inputs. Black-box fuzzing could eventually reach the same end result, but it would take far longer or far more resources.