Comments on: What is Security testing in software testing? https://tryqa.com/what-is-security-testing-in-software/ Study material for ISTQB Exam Certification Foundation level, Premium & Free for ISTQB and ASTQB Exam, Certification questions, answers, software testing tutorials and more Wed, 21 Jun 2023 04:11:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Nafis Rahman https://tryqa.com/what-is-security-testing-in-software/#comment-13836 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:29:32 +0000 http://istqbexamcertification.com/?p=1003#comment-13836 **Collected

Some sources, e.g. ISTQB, claim that security testig is a functional one. This would be compliant with ISO 9126 (which the ISTQB is based on) but it goes against most other sources – as far as I know, security is a non functional requirement. In ISO 25010, security is one of the quality characteristics (non functional).

I believe security testing is non functional testing as we do not test functionality, we examine the system from this perspective the same way we test performance.

ISO 25010 is an updated revision of ISO 9126. Security is considered non-functional.

Link: https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/13281/security-testing-functional-or-non-functioal-iso-9126-vs-iso-25010

]]> By: Ertan Eyimaya https://tryqa.com/what-is-security-testing-in-software/#comment-13595 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:27:37 +0000 http://istqbexamcertification.com/?p=1003#comment-13595 Hi,

According to ISTQB Syllabus 2011 security test is a functional one in contrast to ISO9126. Syllabus says that “a type of functional testing, security testing investigates the functions…” in 2.3.1.

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