Software testing has a massive impact in our lives today. Its indirect and Invisible but it affects our world in a huge way. Its present and growing fast like a bamboo in every sector that the world consists of. Its almost impossible to work efficiently in this digital world, if one is not fully taking benefit of the perks that the digital platform offers. For managing their businesses, many companies already use different web-systems and IT solutions. But every coin has two sides. Though the digitalisation makes it easy to do business like ease of method of Payment and banking related procedures, Stocks, Sales and Purchases of the products etc., it surely has a big danger of the security breaches. That’s why it is important for companies and businesses today to test their securities and tighten the ropes for the dangers to come, Making Security testing one of the most prominent aspects of software maintenance. So, come on, let’s check these basics of security testing.

Everywhere in the world, where there is security, there is always a question of accessibility. It should be the primal goal to make sure the accessibility of the security is bound in fair rules and good hands. It’s for your own customers’ good. It includes two main factors, Validation and Authorization. Authorize a person who will access the security and make sure to confirm how much accessibility have you given to the person. To help ensure that the information and data is safe from external as well as internal breaches, conduct the accessibility test. For this test, you need to test the responsibilities and roles of employees in your company. Getting a tester who is good at what He/she does is always preferable. The tester is supposed to generate multiple user accounts, consisting of various roles. Those accounts will then help you know the security status from the Accessibility point. This test can also be consisting of the Default login feature, Captcha test, Password Quality and strength, and other login and signup related tests.

Your data’s security is dependent on the following factors:

• Data usability and transparency
  It is about how much data on your website your users can see. How much of it is visible.
• Data storage
  This is about the security of your information database.

After testing and noting the vulnerabilities, Proper security testing measures are needed to get assurance about the effectiveness of the storage of the data. If a tester is professional, he /she could surely test the database for every type of critical and prominent data such as passwords, billings, user accounts, etc. There should be end-to-end encryption while the data is being transmitted. Also, the database should have all the important data. Checking the ease of decryption of the encrypted data is also one of the signs of a fine tester.

Most of the times, Hackers use SQL and XSS injection to hack a website. They do it by injecting a malicious script into the system of the website allowing them to manipulate and take control of the hacked site. A tester makes sure that your website is safe from these harmful practices. This can be solved by the tester by adding a restriction on the maximum length of characters allowed in the input fields. This avoids the entry of malicious scripts from hackers.

Human mind can’t work without collaboration. We need other human to survive. And this reflects in our behaviour. One business needs the other business to survive in the market. Hence collaboration becomes one of the prominent factors of this large pit of Businesses. Let’s take an example. If there is a Stock trading app, it has to constantly give access to the users to the latest information and database and to the upcoming users as well. But, as we know, this open access gives way to another big problem known as unwanted breach. Checking the entry points for the app and making sure that the access requests are coming from reliable IPs and applications is what a tester does to avoid these kinds of problems. And if not, The System of your app must have the capacity to cancel and reject those requests.

Session management test is also another important aspect. A session on the web consists of the response transactions between the browser and your web server. The testing involves various actions such as maximum lifetime of termination, expiry time of the session after a certain idle period, session end time after a user logs out etc.

As a user, you must have seen websites going down with errors like Error:404, Error :408 etc. A bit annoying right? Error handling tests are the tests where these kinds of error codes are handled. Here, the tester performs directed actions to ultimately reach such pages and makes sure that the visible page is not having any important piece of data or information. It also involves checking up the Stack traces. Basically, making sure that the hackers will get disappointed!

Though this is the last “etc.” test, it should not be ignored. Features like Payments, File uploads etc. require vigorous testing as any breach can harm the website, ultimately harming the business. Here tester should be careful on testing the delicacies related to payments like insecure storage, Buffer overflows, Password guessing etc. And Obviously, Malicious files must be restricted.

Well, these are the few tests that we suggest. Obviously, if the tester recommends and suggests other tests for your particular business model, you should do them. Anyway, The more the merrier. Afterall, every business model has its own needs and requirements. So, Start your testing now. Conduct the tests and tighten the security of your software. Because as we all know, one who owns the digital market, owns the market. And to own it, one should take care of the security of his/her Digital persona.

About VTEST

VTEST is an independent software testing company catering to product and service teams across the globe. We are a team of software testers who are passionate about quality and love to test. We develop an in-depth understanding of the applications under test and include software testing services strategies that deliver quantifiable results.

In short, we help in building incredible software.