Hello habari developers, I'm in the process of writing my diploma thesis on the prevention of web application security vulnerabilities and I'd like to know a bit about your fine project from the developer's point of view.
It would be great if you could take a couple of minutes and think about the questions below. The questions are mostly open-ended. Elaborate and skip questions at will. I'm sure these questions are not relevant for everybody on this list but I would like to be rather inclusive and not only address the project lead. I also know that part of these questions can be answered by looking at your web page but I'd like to see the developer's view and also uncover discrepancies which might be present. Thank you very much in advance. I will provide you with a link to the results of my thesis when it's done. Florian The questions: About technical aspects: - Are you using a web application framework? Which one? - Do you use explicit data modeling for all business objects in the application? - Do you have a specific layers for input/output validation/filtering? (If applicable) What does the input/output layer do (respectively)? How? Are you using external libraries? Why? Why not? (for HTML sanitation. object-relational mappers, database abstractions with prepared statements)? - (If applicable) What responsibilities do the input/output layers have, respectively? - How do you ensure that all input passed through validation/ filtering? Do you have an API that must be used? - Do you provide services to independently developed modules/ components? Is there a defined API? - Which other external libraries do you use? About the development process: - Is there public documentation about the responsibilities of the input/output layers? - Is there public documentation about *when* input/output validation/ filtering should happen? (Like: "output filtering must always happen in the method that renders the data") - Do you have automatic tests for the whole system? Bonus question: - Do you do manual code review? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
