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Application Security Checklist

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2021 Application Security Trend Report.

In today’s technology landscape, organizations are supported by web applications that act as essential enablers to streamlining operations. While these applications enable automation, wider collaboration, and ease of sharing data, they also act as vectors that are prone to malicious attacks. Besides this, as modern applications rely on loosely connected components and services in constant communication, security becomes a complex, time-consuming challenge.

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5 Benefits of Parallel Testing

These days software firms are putting in a lot of effort to attain quality at speed. Whether it’s continuous testing, Agile or bringing AI into automation, it is required to refine the software development process to keep up with the rapid technological changes. The best way to do that is to adopt practices like parallel testing which will save time and effort. So let’s get into the details of parallel testing and understand the benefits and challenges faced to implement it into the software development life cycle.

What is Parallel Testing?

  • Parallel testing is defined as a type of software testing where multiple apps or features are tested simultaneously which reduces time consumption.
  • It is mostly done when a new version is released for an app. There is a need to check the compatibility of the latest version of different device, browsers and OS combination.
    • For example, if there is a new version of the OS being launched, then there is a need for testing the app to ensure all the features are working fine with the new OS version.
  • Parallel testing can be used when the app is to be tested on a different version of the operating system or when there is a new version of the app to be launched.

To perform parallel testing, you can simply create slave projects for the different functionalities of the app and a master project that will run these projects.

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Can You Really Have a Ton of Testing To Do?

I heard someone say that they had a ton of testing to do to me recently as they entered another weekly test cycle, and I pondered whether testing could be measured in tons. And since mass and energy are irrevocably connected, I wondered whether it could be true, as we are happy to talk about the energy expended in testing.

The standard definition of a kilogram changed late last year from the physical platinum prototype kept under lock and key near Paris, to a calculated value based on Planck's constant. With this new definition of the kilogram, a precise definition of Planck’s constant is required, 6.626070150×10−34 Joule-seconds. So does it help to plagiarise his equation for our purposes?