Can the security mindset make students better testers?

SIGCSE 2015 - Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 404-409

  Hooshangi, Sara ^a   Weiss, Richard ^b   Cappos, Justin ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access control; Python; Security; Testing

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CODES (SYMBOLS); EDUCATION COMPUTING; NETWORK SECURITY; TESTING;

DEFENSE CODES; DEFENSE PROJECTS; PYTHON; SECURE CODES; SECURITY; STUDENT BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS' BEHAVIORS; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84942474179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2676723.2677268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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