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Learning DevOps - Second Edition
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

by Mikael Krief
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
10h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 13: Security and Performance Tests

In Chapter 11, Testing APIs with Postman, and Chapter 12, Static Code Analysis with SonarQube, we talked about test automation with API tests with Postman and static code analysis with SonarQube, respectively.

In this chapter, we will discuss how to carry out security and penetration tests on a web application using the ZAP tool based on the OWASP recommendations. Then, we will add to our Postman skills so that we can perform performance tests on APIs.

We will be covering the following topics:

  • Applying web security and penetration testing with ZAP
  • Running performance tests with Postman

Technical requirements

To use ZAP, we need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which is available at ...

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