Re: [development] Drupal Core Test Plan

On Sep 7, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Angela Byron wrote:

b) Intentionally throwing invalid stuff at the system or using it in unexpected ways to make sure it recovers.

At UW-Madison's CS department (my day job) one of the groups has done a lot of work with "fuzz testing" [1]. They write code to automatically generate random input to any kinds of programs you wish to test. It's a great way to catch bugs in your error handling. Such tests would be fantastic for all aspects of the Drupal UI (FAPI, menu/path system, settings pages, etc), and should be relatively easy to automate. Any volunteers? Thanks, -Derek (dww) [1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/fuzz.html