A Novel Lightweight Solo Software Development Methodology With Optimum Security Practices

Abstract

The diffusion of software into all areas of life and all forms of business, increases the demand for high-quality and secure software products. Software development methodologies are designed to improve the quality of software by incorporating practices that promote quality in the developed software. Software security is an important facet of software quality, particularly in this era, where most software is deployed for use over the Internet. Most research on developing high-quality and secure software is normally focused on teams at the expense of individual developers. In trying to fill this gap, in this paper we propose an agile secure-software development methodology. We design a methodology that promotes quality and security in the software products of solo developers. We integrate quality practices with lightweight security practices to produce agile secure software development practices. We draw quality practices from a solo software development framework designed in our previous study, while security practices are drawn from existing lightweight methodologies. We adapt Keramati and Mirian-Hosseinabadi's algorithm to integrate the two sets of practices, taking care to maintain an optimum degree of agility in the target methodology. We evaluate the utility of the resultant methodology through a case study. Results from the case study show that our proposed methodology can be used to build quality and secure software products without compromising the agility of the methodology.

Systematic Literature Review on Security Risks and its Practices in Secure Software Development

“…20 Implement Sandboxing SDP3. 21 Follow psychological acceptability principle of design to automatically incorporate basic security SDP3. 22 Follow the least common mechanism to restrict shared resource access SDP3.…”

“…Traditional security mechanisms mainly focus on network systems, and they spent a huge amount of money to make their network secure. These mechanisms include IDS (Intrusion detection system), firewalls, encryption, antivirus, and antispyware [5,21]. "Building secure software means building software that functions properly even under malicious attacks" [22].…”

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“…Scrum is one of the most used agile management methods. According to last three agile adoption surveys, Scrum highlights empirical feedback, team self-management, and struggling to build thoroughly tested product increments within short iterations [23,24]. Scrum is an agile methodology which is the most standard way of introducing agility due to its flexibility and straightforwardness and a popular management agile method in industry.…”

“…Researchers and professionals have a mixed opinion about similarity and compatibility of the two approaches. Critics emphasize differences among SOA and agile approaches, arguing that SOA and agile are standing at different development direction: SOA is architecture and agile is a methodology [24,26]; SOA works in a top-down manner, while agile is inherently a bottom-up approach [29,30]. SOA is an architectural framework and follows a set of principles, whereas agile is a process model and works at practice level [31].…”

Classifying Student Attentiveness Using Machine Learning Technique for Improving Learning Systems

“…There have been many researches that is being used to understand the student's concentration. Many of the research is based on the Qualitative Approach where they find and measure the concentration of the students [1][2][3]. There are some studies which suggests the research being carried out in the Qualitative manner to find out the student's concentration level.…”