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Android Root Apps May Soon Be More Difficult To Write, For Security's Sake
ReadWrite The Android security model has always had sandboxes that protect user data from other applications. By changing the flow through which data progresses through root apps, Android engineers are attempting to make it more difficult for malicious apps to … Future Android security feature could break many root apps |
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It's Time to Write the Rules of Cyberwar
IEEE Spectrum A malware program known as Flame is discovered in computers across the Middle East, with the majority of targets in Iran. The sophisticated cyberespionage program shares some source code with Stuxnet but is described by experts as being far more … |
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Paul asks:
Suppose one had a relatively large program (say 900k SLOC in C#), all commented/documented thoroughly, well organized and working well. The entire code base was written by a single senior developer who no longer with the company. All the code is testable as is and IoC is used throughout—except for some strange reason they did not write any unit tests. Now, your company wants to branch the code and wants unit tests added to detect when changes break the core functionality.
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Chris Devereaux has recently been reading up on “Literate Programming,” an innovative (and mostly unused) approach to programming developed by Donald Knuth in the 1970s. It got him thinking about new ways of implementing tests. “Well-written tests, especially BDD-style specs, can do a better job of explaining what code does than prose does,” he writes in his question. Also, tests “have the big advantage of verifying their own accuracy.” Still, Chris has never seen tests written inline with the code they test. Why not?
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