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Security Testing With Misuse Case Modeling, Samer Yousef Khamaiseh
Security Testing With Misuse Case Modeling, Samer Yousef Khamaiseh
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Having a comprehensive model of security requirements is a crucial step towards developing a reliable software system. An effective model of security requirements which describes the possible scenarios that may affect the security aspects of the system under development can be an effective approach for subsequent use in generating security test cases.
Misuse case was first proposed by Sinder and Opdahl as an approach to extract the security requirements of the system under development [1]. A misuse case is a use case representing scenarios that might be followed by a system adversary in order to compromise the system; that is …