We looked at the scope and challenges of security automation in Chapter 1, The Scope and Challenges of Security Automation. In this chapter, we will introduce how security and automation can be integrated. Since both security testing and automation testing require domain expertise and very particular tools, this chapter will introduce how to bake automation into existing security testing frameworks to improve testing coverage and efficiency. We will also discuss how security testing practices and tools can be integrated into your in-house automation testing framework.
The following topics will briefly be discussed in this chapter:
- The domains of automation testing and security testing
- Automation frameworks and techniques
- Automating existing security testing
- Security testing with an existing automation framework
