Better non-functional security tests for software
Monday, September 15, 2014 - 06:00
in Mathematics & Economics
The integration of digital expert knowledge and automation of risk analyses can greatly improve software test procedures and make cloud computing more secure. This is shown by the latest results of a project by the Austrian Science Fund FWF on the quality assurance of security critical systems which has just been published. The results provide a platform for what are known as non-functional security tests. These attempt to identify weaknesses in software which do not arise directly from the execution of the program – and play an increasingly important role for cloud computing. The recently developed platform allows such tests to be automated further and made more user-friendly.