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Practical Security Automation and Testing

You're reading from   Practical Security Automation and Testing Tools and techniques for automated security scanning and testing in DevSecOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802023
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Scope and Challenges of Security Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Security and Automation 3. Secure Code Inspection 4. Sensitive Information and Privacy Testing 5. Security API and Fuzz Testing 6. Web Application Security Testing 7. Android Security Testing 8. Infrastructure Security 9. BDD Acceptance Security Testing 10. Project Background and Automation Approach 11. Automated Testing for Web Applications 12. Automated Fuzz API Security Testing 13. Automated Infrastructure Security 14. Managing and Presenting Test Results 15. Summary of Automation Security Testing Tips 16. List of Scripts and Tools 17. Solutions 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

BDD Acceptance Security Testing

In this chapter, we will discuss the challenges of cross-team communication within a large software development team. The team who executed the security testing may understand what has been tested and how, but other non-technical teams such as product management, marketing, or even customers may not understand the context just from reading the testing reports. Therefore, we will introduce behavior-driven development (BDD) acceptance testing with automation security testing. BDD security testing is introduced to improve the communication of the nature of security testing to all functional teams involved. We will use security testing tools on top of the BDD security automation testing framework and hook into the testing process.

The following topics are to be covered in this chapter:

  • Security testing communication
  • Overview of BDD security testing...
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