Secure software development documents

udayan pathak <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 04:18:54 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications,gmane.comp.security.programming
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi everyone

I have a query!
 

What are the documentation standards being followed as
far as secure software development is concerned? I
find that in the current software development process
the document generated do not/ barely cover the
security of the application being developed.

All the normal documents for requirement
specification, requirement tracking, high level and
low level design documents etc have nothing more than
a small section in their template format for security,
which looks more like a formality and hardly serves
the purpose.

Especially as far a software testing is concerned one
gets the feeling that the provision for security
testing in test cases gets diluted in the sea of
functionality testing.

Has anyone got any insights into this? or any other
standard being followed ?

Please let me know

 

Udayan Pathak


	
		
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