From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 5 Secure Software Testing
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Automation vs. manual testing
From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 5 Secure Software Testing
Automation vs. manual testing
- [Narrator] Application security testing includes a variety of automated and manual testing techniques. In order to keep up with all the security testing you'll be expected to do, you'll want to understand when it makes sense to perform a manual test and when it makes sense to automate that testing activity. Well planned automated security tests tend to be more quick and consistent than manual tests. Once you define the parameters of the test, you can schedule those tests to run as often as you like. No more staring at your screen scratching your head. That consistency lends well when you need to scale your tests. A manual tester may be able to vet a single app, but 100 apps, 1,000? Not likely. The downside of automated tests is that they're often limited to how they're configured before the tests are actually executed. It can be very difficult to change the testing logic midstream, and good luck trying to automate…
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