Chapter 10
Application Security Fundamentals
There is a well-known saying in programming circles that two things in life are very easy: walking on water and creating an application quickly if the water and the requirements to the application are frozen. As funny as it sounds, the reality is such that the requirements given to an application always keep changing throughout the process, causing endless frustrations to all the stakeholders.
The reason is not hard to understand. An option box can be designed either as a radio button or a checkbox, and until the end user sees the code in action, it is impossible to say which option looks better. Likewise, dropdown windows that show a list of countries or states, text boxes, and many more standard ...
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