Chapter 10 Software Durability Testing

DOI: 10.1201/9781003322351-10

10.1 Objectives

In the present era of incessant attacks and cyber threats, a new trend is gaining a strong foothold. This is evident from the fact that the intruders are now shifting their tactics from hacking to data integrity and durability attacks. Vulnerabilities in source code are putting the software business at risk all the time. Although static source code analysis tools are improving, there is still a gap between what they can identify and what should be discovered. A prescriptive framework has been presented for critically examining source code in order to filter out the vulnerabilities and categorise their severity levels. The proposed framework in this chapter ...

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