Test Your Applicationâs Code Quality
The first thing to get right when starting a white box analysis on your application is to validate your own code. I assume weâre not talking about one file with fewer than a hundred lines of code. Therefore, meticulously going over every line of code by hand isnât feasible.
An important part of writing a secure web application is maintaining code quality. Security errors frequently start as simple coding mistakes that can be exploited by attackers. Instability can easily be used to launch denial-of-service attacks.
Maintaining code quality as the team and application grow can be daunting, especially by hand. Fortunately, tools such as JSLint[85] and JSHint.[86] are available. They perform static analysis ...
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