12 Security Testing
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
—Burt Rutan
This chapter introduces security testing as an essential part of developing reliable, secure code. Testing proactively to detect security vulnerabilities is both well understood and not difficult to do, but it’s vastly underutilized in practice and so represents a major opportunity to raise security assurance.
This chapter opens with a quick overview of the uses of security testing, followed by a walkthrough of how security testing could have saved the world from a major vulnerability. Next, we look at the basics of writing security test cases ...
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