You're reading from Tools and Skills for .NET 8 Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions 

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635207

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET

2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor FREE CHAPTER

3. Source Code Management Using Git

4. Debugging and Memory Troubleshooting

5. Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Observability

6. Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services

7. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically

8. Protecting Data and Apps Using Cryptography

9. Building an LLM-Based Chat Service

10. Dependency Injection, Containers, and Service Lifetime

11. Unit Testing and Mocking

12. Integration and Security Testing

13. Benchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress Testing

14. Functional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and Services

15. Containerization Using Docker

16. Cloud-Native Development Using .NET Aspire

17. Design Patterns and Principles

18. Software and Solution Architecture Foundations

19. Your Career, Teamwork, and Interviews

20. Epilogue

21. Index

Introducing security testing

Security testing is a type of software testing that aims to uncover vulnerabilities, threats, and risks in a software application, ensuring that data and resources are protected from potential intruders. This process involves evaluating the application for security flaws that could be exploited by attackers, such as weaknesses in authentication, authorization, data encryption, and error handling. The goal is to identify and mitigate security issues to ensure the application can withstand malicious attacks and protect sensitive information, thereby maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

For a .NET developer, security testing should not just be about ticking off a checklist. You need to embed a security-first mindset into the foundations of your development process. Given that .NET can create a wide range of applications—from web to mobile and desktop—understanding all aspects of security testing is challenging...