Quality assurance and testing organizations are tasked with the broad objective of assuring that a software application fulfills its functional business requirements. Such testing most often involves running a series of dynamic functional tests, to ensure proper implementation of the application?s features. However, because security is not a feature or even a set of features, security testing doesn't directly fit into this paradigm.
Index Terms:
security testing, penetration testing, software development life cycle
Citation:
Brad Arkin, Scott Stender, Gary McGraw, "Software Penetration Testing," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 84-87, Jan. 2005, doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.23