A Perception of the Practice of Software Security and Performance Verification

Abstract

Security and performance are critical nonfunctional requirements for software systems. Thus, it is crucial to include verification activities during software development to identify defects related to such requirements, avoiding their occurrence after release. Software verification, including testing and reviews, encompasses a set of activities that have a purpose of analyzing the software searching for defects. Security and performance verification are activities that look at defects related to these specific quality attributes. Few empirical studies have been focused on how is the state of the practice in security and performance verification. This paper presents the results of a case study performed in the context of Brazilian organizations aiming to characterize security and performance verification practices. Additionally, it provides a set of conjectures indicating recommendations to improve security and performance verification activities.

Improving the Safety and Security of Software Systems by Mediating SAP Verification

“…Security verification refers to the technical verification of the application before deployment. Security verification aims to identify security breaches and to verify that the developed software meets security requirements [10,15]. Security verification is also nec- The security verification of software, also known as security assurance, spins around the following main techniques, as shown in Figure 1:…”

“…Log inspection is a systematic process that consists of seven activities, as shown in Figure 1. These activities include planning the inspection, holding kick-off meetings, performing individual checking, conducting log meetings, editing the document, verifying corrections, and inspection closure [8,10,16]. The verification team is responsible for performing log inspections.…”

“…Various SAP verification methods are out there, but software systems still have flaws. Performance difficulties are a major concern in several businesses, such as telecoms, and attacks are also increasing rapidly on various systems, such as on news-reporting systems [10]. Some of the possible causes for this issue are (1) inefficient verification methods, (2) software businesses failing to apply adequate verification procedures, or (3) a perceived split between academia and industry.…”

Keynote Talk: Some Challenges and Pitfalls in Engineering Contemporary Software Systems Under the Plague of Defects

“…Software Engineering, as a discipline, has undergone constant changes since its conception, with the Internet being another evolution that strongly influenced changes in the area [8][10][14] [13] and promoting the need to evolve the software technologies previously proposed and used to develop computational solutions becomes clearer [6][7]. Such modern systems have revealed intrinsic and multidisciplinary concerns and properties for which conventional software technologies are not appropriate [3][6][14].…”

A Systematic Broad Review on Software Security Testing in Different Ways

“…Moreover, several units are present in the software model each unit are linked with one another and integrated with whole system [11]. The performance of the system is evaluated based on the unit intersection in the entire system [12].…”