Design notations for secure software: a systematic literature review

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2017-07-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Van Den Berghe, Alexander  
Scandariato, Riccardo  
Yskout, Koen  
Joosen, Wouter  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/12163
Journal
Software and systems modeling  
Volume
16
Issue
3
Start Page
809
End Page
831
Citation
Software and Systems Modeling 16 (3): 809-831 (2017-07-01)
Publisher DOI
10.1007/s10270-015-0486-9
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84938723359
In the past 10 years, the research community has produced a significant number of design notations to represent security properties and concepts in a design artifact. These notations are aimed at documenting and analyzing security in a software design model. The fragmentation of the research space, however, has resulted in a complex tangle of different techniques. Hence, practitioners are confronted with the challenging task of scouting the right approach from a multitude of proposals. Similarly, it is hard for researchers to keep track of the synergies among the existing notations, in order to identify the existing opportunities for original contributions. This paper presents a systematic literature review that inventorizes the existing notations and provides an in-depth, comparative analysis for each.
Subjects
Empirical study
Notation
Security
Software design