From the course: Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
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Security testing
From the course: Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
Security testing
- As you know, people don't always use the internet for good. or find ways to bring applications down. Security testing is performed to reveal flaws or vulnerabilities that can be exposed by users. Manual UI automation, an integration test, focus more on functionality and confirming it works as expected. Security testing instead looks to expose problems in the application that can either cause it to behave in unexpected ways or stop it from working. Potential problems can include loss of customer data and trust, decline in revenue, and website downtime. There are so many different ways to approach security testing because they are so many ways someone could try to hack an application. SQL Injection is one of the most common types of attacks used by hackers to insert SQL database statements into any text field. This can expose critical information and allow the system to be manipulated. Thinking about the search flight feature, I could use SQL Injection on different fields in the…
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