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Security-Driven Software Development

By : Aspen Olmsted
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Security-Driven Software Development

By: Aspen Olmsted

Overview of this book

Extend your software development skills to integrate security into every aspect of your projects. Perfect for any programmer or developer working on mission-critical applications, this hands-on guide helps you adopt secure software development practices. Explore core concepts like security specifi cation, modeling, and threat mitigation with the iterative approach of this book that allows you to trace security requirements through each phase of software development. You won’t stop at the basics; you’ll delve into multiple-layer att acks and develop the mindset to prevent them. Through an example application project involving an entertainment ticketing software system, you’ll look at high-profi le security incidents that have aff ected popular music stars and performers. Drawing from the author’s decades of experience building secure applications in this domain, this book off ers comprehensive techniques where problem-solving meets practicality for secure development. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the expertise to systematically secure software projects, from crafting robust security specifi cations to adeptly mitigating multifaceted threats, ensuring your applications stand resilient in the face of evolving cybersecurity challenges.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Modeling a Secure Application
8
Part 2: Mitigating Risks in Implementation
13
Part 3: Security Validation

Unit Testing

Unit testing is a software testing technique that involves testing individual units or components of a software application in isolation, ensuring that they work correctly. These units are typically minor testable software parts, such as functions, methods, or classes. The primary purpose of unit testing is to validate that each unit of code performs its intended functionality as expected.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover unit testing by looking at the following main topics:

  • The principles of unit testing
  • The advantages of unit testing
  • Unit testing frameworks
  • An example of enterprise secure unit tests

By the end of the chapter, you will have learned the benefits of unit testing and how it can contribute to more secure and reliable software.