OWASP Autumn of Code 2006 - Projects: Testing Guide - Progress

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Daily Notes

Week 01 - Oct 08

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• Checked out all the documentations
• Built the index and the state of completeness about each paragraphs
• Review the index of the OWASP Testing Guide
• Worked on updating the project page

Week 02 - Oct 15

• Call for participation on webappsec ml
• Brainstorming about the new Index on OWASP-Testing ml
• Contacted the best in WebAppSec field to have a feedback about the project
• 16 people are interested working at the project
• Created the new [OWASP Testing Guide v2 Table of Contents]
• Created a new Introduction (Chapter 2):

1 The OWASP Testing Project
2 How To Go About Performing An Application Security Review
3 Principles of Testing
4 Testing Techniques Explained
4.1 Manual Inspections & Reviews
4.2 Threat Modeling
4.3 Source Code Review
4.4 Penetration Testing
4.5 The Need for a Balanced Approach

• Put the Chapter OWASP Testing Framework as Chapter 3, before the Chapter in which we describe the testing phase in detail.
• Renamed Chapter 4 from "Manual Testing Techinques" to "Web Application Penetration Testing"
• Rationalized Chapter 4 and splitted the testing into:

4.1 Introduction and objectives 4.2 Information Gathering 4.3 Business logic testing 4.4 Authentication Testing 4.5 Session Management Testing 4.6 Data Validation Testing 4.7 Denial of Service Testing 4.8 Infrastructure and configuration Testing 4.9 Web Services Testing 4.10 AJAX Testing

• Review content of Information Gathering, Data Validation, Infrastructure and Configuration.
• Created a template for each new paraghraph in Chapter 4.
• Created a rule for writing
• Next: 15th Oct: End of brainstorming Index. We have a final Index

Week 03 - Oct 22

• Assigned a paragraph for each contributor: we have set up a high quality team.
• Edited the Template for Chapter 4: now we have a new paragraph titled "Brief Summary" in which we describe in "natural language" what we want to test.
• Begin to write the first draft: deadline 5th November

Week 04 - Oct 29

• Now every contributor is writing his own article.
• There are already some small teams working together at the same article.
• A few contributors have added the articles on our Portal. If you have any problem to write the article on the Wiki portal please

contact me.

• Contacted each author to know the progress status.

Week 05 - Nov 05

• Writing articles...

Week 06 - Nov 12

• Collected all the articles

Week 07 - Nov 19

We are surrently in the review stage apart from some late submissions (4 sections) Generally the quality is good. Time must be taken to make sure the english usd is of good standard. Quality of chapters is also good, citing many examples and references.

• Articles:

We have added one more article: 4.2.1 Testing Web Application Fingerprint Now we are writing 73 articles:

• 45 articles are completed (61.4%)
• 8 articles are completed for more or equal to 90% (11%)
• 17 article need a last effort to be completed (23.4%)
• 2 articles need to be write from scratch (2.8%)
• 1 article need to a volunteer! (1.4%) - 4.6.2.2 Oracle testing (0%,TD)

Week 08 - Nov 26

1) Articles We are writing 73 articles:

• 54 articles are completed (74%)
• 17 articles need a last effort to be completed (23.2%)
• 1 article need to be write from scratch (1.4%)
• 1 article need to a volunteer! (1.4%) - 4.6.2.2 Oracle testing (0%,TD)

2) Review At the moment chapters 4.5, 4.9 need to be reviewed.

Week 09 - Dec 03

1) Articles Thanks to our OWASP Chair, We have now a Forward by Jeff Williams

The testing Guide comprises 74 articles:

• 60 articles are completed (81%)
• 14 article need a last effort to be completed (19%)

2) Review At the moment chapter 4.9 need to be reviewed.