• How Good Testing Improves Security

  Security and data breaches are probably one of the biggest risks any product faces. One public incident can take a company down or at least have a huge impact on it’s bottom line. Not to mention what something like that does to company morale. It would follow then that security testing is very important. However, I don’t know if you’ve looked into security testing. It is a complex and intimidating world to get into.  You need a lot of specialist knowledge and a high degree of technical competence to be an effective security or penetration tester. Not all of us have the time or inclination to learn what it takes to get into this field, but that doesn’t mean we can’t contribute to security. Good testing leads to a more a secure product. There are many security concerns like cross site scripting or packet sniffing or SQL injection that you probably won’t find without a least some specialist knowledge, but there are many other things that contribute to security. Understandable Code If you have code that you can understand, it will be much easier to see possible security flaws through things like code review. Cleaner code could also make it easier for security analysis tools to find flaws and vulnerabilities. Testing can of course contribute to understandable code. Even if you don’t know much coding you can contribute. Look at code reviews and even if you don’t know how to write code you should be able to sort of follow[…]

  17.12.2018 | 1:08 קרא עוד...

• #NoTesting?? Here’s what it means to me.

  The #NoTesting hashtag is having a bit of a resurgence recently, so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and write down my opinions on the whole thing. The term is very confusing to say the least. Many people take it to mean “don’t do any testing”, which is understandable that they interpret it […]

  17.12.2018 | 9:46 קרא עוד...

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