Software Test Attacks to Break Mobile and Embedded Devices

ISBN-13: 9781466575301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 377 str.

Jon Duncan Hagar

Opis

An important objective in testing software systems is to show that they actually work. This can be done quickly for single benign cases, but then the system may fail in the real world. In addition to showing that the software works, testing must try to break the software by attacking it. This attack approach can be applied to all embedded software devices. This book details over 30 software testing attacks needed to find bugs in today's handheld, mobile, and smart devices, all of which utilize embedded software. The book will also provide extensive testing techniques not found in any other book.

Spis treści

Setting the Mobile and Embedded Framework. Developer Attacks: Taking the Code Head On. Control System Attacks. Hardware Software Attacks. Mobile and Embedded Software Attacks. Time Attacks: "It’s about Time." Human User Interface Attacks: "The Limited (and Unlimited) User Interface." Smart and/or Mobile Phone Attacks. Mobile/Embedded Security. Generic Attacks. Mobile and Embedded System Labs. Some Parting Advice. Appendices. References. Glossary. Index.

O autorze

Jon Hagar is the principal (CEO/CTO) and senior software test engineer at Grand Software Testing. For over 30 years he has worked on systems and software engineering, specializing in testing/verification and validation. He is the lead editor on ISO/IEC/IEEE29119 Software Test Standard, a member of the IEEE1012 V&V Plan working group, and co-chair on the OMG UML testing profile standard. Jon holds a patent on web test technologies and has published numerous articles on software reliability, testing, test tools, formal methods, and embedded systems. He has a B.S. in mathematics with a specialization in civil engineering and software from Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado, and an M.S. in computer science with a specialization in software engineering and testing from Colorado State University.