Web App Security: A Comparison and Categorization of Testing Frameworks

Web App Security: A Comparison and Categorization of Testing Frameworks

Web app developers often face challenges in using the many available security-testing frameworks, owing to those frameworks' inherent complexity and the lack of proper documentation. No up-to-date criteria exist that can help practitioners and organizations select an appropriate framework. Cons...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE software 2017-01, Vol.34 (1), p.99-102
Hauptverfasser: Srinivasan, Satish M., Sangwan, Raghvinder S.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Comparative analysis
Computer applications
Computer security
Cybersecurity
Forgery
High performance computing
security testing
Software
software development
Software engineering
Software industry
software security
Software testing
Studies
Test systems
Web apps
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Zusammenfassung:Web app developers often face challenges in using the many available security-testing frameworks, owing to those frameworks' inherent complexity and the lack of proper documentation. No up-to-date criteria exist that can help practitioners and organizations select an appropriate framework. Consequently, numerous vulnerabilities go undetected in the final product, creating a potential for major attacks. To help practitioners select the right framework, researchers classified 26 frameworks, using 27 criteria.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2017.21