GUI-Based Testing of Boundary Overflow Vulnerability

Author

Tuglular, T. ; Muftuoglu, C.A. ; Kaya, O. ; Belli, F. ; Linschulte, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Izmir Inst. of Technol., Izmir, Turkey

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

20-24 July 2009

Firstpage

539

Lastpage

544

Abstract

Boundary overflows are caused by violation of constraints, mostly limiting the range of internal values of program, and can be provoked by an intruder to gain control of or access to stored data. In order to countermeasure this well-known vulnerability issue, this paper focuses on input validation of graphical user interfaces (GUI). The approach proposed generates test cases for numerical inputs based on GUI specification through decision tables. If boundary overflow error(s) are detected, the source code will be analyzed to localize and correct the encountered error(s) automatically.

Keywords

decision tables; formal specification; graphical user interfaces; program diagnostics; program testing; program verification; GUI specification; GUI-based testing; boundary overflow vulnerability; constraint violation; decision table; graphical user interface validation; source code analysis; Application software; Computer applications; Contracts; Data engineering; Error correction codes; Gain control; Graphical user interfaces; Local area networks; Software testing; User interfaces; Boundary Overflow; Boundary Value Analysis; Decision Tables; GUI Testing; Input Validation; Security Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2009. COMPSAC '09. 33rd Annual IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3726-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.189

Filename

5254083