CompTIA Security+ Question J-82

Which of the following describes purposefully injecting extra input during testing, possibly causing an application to crash?

A. Input validation
B. Exception handling
C. Application hardening
D. Fuzzing

Answer: D

Explanation:
Fuzzing is a software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data to as inputs to a computer program. The program is then monitored for exceptions such as crashes, or failed validation, or memory leaks.