Impact of Coding Styles on Behaviours of Static Analysis Tools for Web Applications

• Published in: 2020 50th Annual IEEE-IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S) pp. 55 - 56
• Main Authors: Medeiros, Iberia, Neves, Nuno
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2020
• Subjects: coding styles; Cross-site scripting; Electronic mail; Encoding; Registers; software security; Static analysis; Static analysis tools; Web vulnerabilities

Web applications have become an essential resource to access the services of diverse subjects (e.g., financial, healthcare) available on the Internet. Despite the efforts that have been made on its security, namely on the investigation of better techniques to detect vulnerabilities on its source cod...