Overview
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There is currently considerable interest in software metrics for security-critical programs and many such metrics have been proposed. This project will produce a programming environment that allows the relative security of object-oriented program code, as determined by such metrics, to be visualised as the program is developed. This will be done as a plug-in module for a typical Integrated Development Environment such as Eclipse, Netbeans or XCode. The tool will focus on the ways in which "classified" data may flow between classes, methods and attributes within the program, thus allowing the programmer to assess the code's security with respect to data confidentiality and integrity. This will allow the programmer to easily compare different versions of the program and refactor the code to make it more secure.
- Study level
- PhD
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
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Please contact the supervisor.
Professor Colin Fidge
