Building Secure Firmware: Armoring the Foundation of the Platform

© Jiewen Yao and Vincent Zimmer 2020

J. Yao, V. ZimmerBuilding Secure Firmwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6106-4_21

21. Security Unit Test

Jiewen Yao¹  and Vincent Zimmer²

(1)

Shanghai, China

(2)

Issaquah, WA, USA

 

After we finish all of the code development work, we need to perform security testing. Usually, the developers need to perform security unit testing and then deliver the code to the test team. At this point, the test team needs to perform more thorough system-level security testing. There are many books that introduce software testing techniques. We will not repeat those contents here. Instead, in this chapter, we will focus on the firmware-specific security unit testing from a developer’s perspective. In the next chapter, we will focus ...