testing

Talk - Building PurpleTeam (a Security Regression Testing SaaS) - From PoC to Alpha

Developers / Engineers know that a build pipeline is an essential part of creating robust and reliable software, but what to put in it? This talk covers the creation of purpleteam from PoC to Alpha release, and why it’s an ideal fit for the security regression testing slot of your build pipeline.

Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers

A three part book series focused on lifting the security knowledge of Software Developers, Engineers, and their teams, so that they can continuously deliver secure technical solutions on time and within budget, without nasty surprises. First book is complete, second book is content complete and currently in technical review.

Talk - Secrets of a High Performance Security Focussed Agile Team

At BSides Wellington: Kim discusses that Quality (security included) does not have to be neglected when you’re planning, building and running a high performance development team. He discusses how we fail and how to succeed.

Talk - Secrets of a High Performance Security Focussed Agile Team

Kim discusses how and why Agile Development Teams fail at security, and how to stop failing.

Workshop - Developing a high-performance security focussed Agile Team

DevSecCon, Singapore: Quality (security included) does not have to be neglected when you’re planning, building and running a high-performance development team. Kim will set the stage with how and why Agile development teams fail, explained with a familiar anecdote taken from his new book “Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers”, coupled with how you can change this.

Consuming Free and Open Source

Redirects to legacy blog post. This is where A9 (Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities) of the 2013 OWASP Top 10 comes in. We are consuming far more free and open source libraries than we have ever before. Much of the code we are pulling into our projects is never intentionally used, but is still adding surface area for attack. In this post we address the risks and countermeasures.

Software Engineer Interview Quick Question Set

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Software Engineer Interview Process and Questions

Redirects to legacy blog post. A short time ago, I was tasked with finding the right software engineer/s for the organisation I was working for. I settled on a process, a set of background questions, a set of practical programming exercises and a set of verbal questions. Later on I cut the set of verbal questions down to a quicker set. In this post, I’ll be going over the process and the full set of verbal questions. In a subsequent post I’ll go over the quicker set.

Talk - Moving to test and behaviour-driven development

At Canterbury Software Cluster: In this session Kim went over the benefits of introducing TDD and BDD: How to introduce them, their differences, how to deal with push back from team members and upper management.

How to optimise your testing effort

Redirects to legacy blog post. I recently wrote a post for the company I currently work for around the joys of doing TDD. What is your current approach to testing? How can you spend the little time you have on the most important areas? I thought I’d share some thoughts around where I see the optimal areas to invest your test effort.