From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 5 Secure Software Testing
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Verifying and validating documentation
From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 5 Secure Software Testing
Verifying and validating documentation
- [Instructor] The scope of your security testing includes more than just technical components of your application infrastructure. An important step in secure software testing is to verify and validate the documentation that guided the development of that application. Hopefully, your dev team has been generating a lot of documentation along the way to maximize the team's shared knowledge as the app passes through the SDLC. As the CSSLP, there are four types of documentation that you'll be particularly interested in as you build out your test cases. Installation and setup instructions, error messages, user guides, and release notes. First, take a look at the app's installation and setup instructions. And when you're reading through those instructions, you should do so with the target audience in mind. Who's ultimately going to be using these instructions? A semi-technical end user? A system administrator? How much…
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