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The Benefit of Using SAST Tools During Code Review

As malicious actors become increasingly sophisticated, developers must stay one step ahead to protect their applications from security threats. However, it can be challenging to rely solely on humans to detect problematic areas during code review, especially ...

Industry AppSec Software Testing

How AI Is Changing Application Security Testing

As organizations increasingly rely on digital solutions to stay competitive, the importance of application security has skyrocketed. In response to this growing need, AI is stepping into the spotlight, transforming how organizations approach application secur...

Software Testing Trends

Proactive Security Scanning and Testing Pre-Empts Attacks

Best security practices dictates that avoiding trouble is faster, cheaper and easier than fixing trouble after it manifests.

Industry AppSec Software Testing

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Static Analysis in Automated Software Quality Tests

Software quality management solutions use automated tests and static analysis to generate software quality metrics. With the ability to parse code in almost every commonly used programming language, static analysis is useful...

Industry AppSec Software Testing

Effectuez Vos Mesures ET Analyses en Un Clic

Les analyses du code revêtent une importance économique Les analyses de codes (sécurité, rendement…) représentent des thèmes d’une importance économique substantielle. Cette importance justifie la nécessité d’effectuer des mesures précises, à l’aide de métriq...

Kiuwan Software Testing

Code Analysis of Twitter’s DistributedLog

Recently, the Twitter engineering team (@TwitterEng) published an interesting library: DistributedLog, a replicated and highly efficient service to manage the logs of applications. A summary of its characteristics as found in the documenta...

Programming Language Software Testing

The Comprehensive Defects List for Better Code Quality

Kiuwan indicators are based on evidence. Part of that evidence —along with intrinsic code metrics— are the defects and vulnerabilities found in the source code analysis Right. What does Kiuwan consider a defect? A defect is a violation to a rule defined in th...

Programming Language Software Testing

4 Best Practices for Security Testing in the SDLC

Improving the security of your application development lifecycle provides users with a better experience while preventing data breaches, and it starts with security testing. The last thing any company wants is to get that dreaded warning that someone’s ...

DevSecOps Software Testing

Essential Code Analysis Methods Developers Need to Know

Software tools for code analysis let developers create code that is less bug-ridden and more secure. They find problems that are hard for human readers to spot and produce unpredictable run-time errors. Along with dynamic tests such as unit testing, they’re a...

Programming Language Software Testing

Pentesting: What It Is and How It Works

Pentesting is also called penetration testing or ethical hacking. A penetration test is designed to answer the question: “How effective is my current security against a skilled human attacker?” In this article, we’ll go over what it is, why it’s important to ...

Industry AppSec Software Testing

DIY Guide to the OWASP Benchmark

DIY: Generate OWASP Benchmark Results for Kiuwan Code Security The OWASP Benchmark for Security Automation (OWASP benchmark) is a free and open test suite designed to evaluate the speed, coverage, and accuracy of automated software vulnerability detection too...

Industry AppSec Software Testing

Webcast: Elevate Code Quality to the Next Level

Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:00 am PST (4:00 PM Central Europe) Join us to discuss the merits of static analysis and how you can leverage Kiuwan (powered by Kiuwan Software) with Dimensions CM to shift-left and elevate your code quality to the next level. Y...

Software Testing Thought Leadership