Critical Review on Software Testing: Security Perspective

Software plays a crucial role in day to day life; hence its security and reliability cannot be neglected. Creating a secure software system is not just to secure sensitive and confidential information but it needed to establish a system which could stand true on the benchmark set for being a secure software system and further derive a roadmap to construct impregnable and efficient software. In order to fulfill this criterion, security testing is vital for the development of a secure software system as it pursue all the aspects of SDLC. Security should form an integral part of a SDLC, hence to maximize and maintain the defenses of a software system and to keep its development cost in limits, Security Testing Profile (STP) provides a reliable platform for testing software. STP is an uncharted territory and more progress can be made in this area, which may help in developing robust software systems.