Security Testing Basics for Manual Testers — Roadmap Step & Resources
Basic checks like input sanitization, authentication and authorization a manual tester can perform
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Manual QA Testing
Before this step
Mini projects
- Test a login form for basic security issues like SQL injection attempts and account lockout behavior
Interview questions
- What basic security checks can a manual tester perform without specialized penetration testing skills?
Study resources
- Security Testing Tutorial (Article) — Guru99's comprehensive introduction to security testing.
- OWASP Top 10 (Article) — OWASP's official, authoritative list of the most critical web application security risks.
Part of
- Non-Functional Testing Overview — section
- Manual QA Testing roadmap — the full learning path