Secure and Resilient Software: Requirements, Test Cases, and Testing Methods

Intended for software development professionals, this book will help readers get started with incorporating nonfunctional requirements into their software projects. The authors offer a reusable set of documentations to simplify integration of security into the requirements analysis, design, and testing phases of the software development lifecycle. It provides best practices to ensure the test cases are executed using the right set of procedures and tools, and is filled with already developed nonfunctional requirements and corresponding test cases to aid with understanding. The information provided will help readers save time, reduce costs, and improve overall software quality.

Mark Merkow works at PayPal Inc. (an eBay company) in Scottsdale Arizona as Manager of Information Security Policies and Standards in the Information Risk Management area. Mark has over 35 years of experience in Information Technology from a variety of roles, including Applications Development, Systems Analysis and Design, Security Engineer, and Security Manager. He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certificate from ISC2, the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certificate from ISACA, and the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certificate from ISC2.

Lakshmikanth Raghavan (Laksh) works at PayPal Inc. in San Jose, California as Staff Information Security Engineer in the Information Risk Management area. He has over nine years of experience in the areas of information security and information risk management and has been providing consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and financial services companies around the world in his previous stints. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and also maintains the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certificate from ISACA.