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Defensive Design Techniques
The purpose of defensive design is make sure, as far as possible, that a program runs correctly and continues to run no matter what actions a user takes. Planning for all possibilities (contingencies) is important as well as thinking about what a user may do that the program does not expect.
Defensive design encompasses three areas:
- protection against unexpected user inputs or actions, such as a user entering a letter where a number was expected
- maintainability - ensuring code is readable and understandable
- minimising/removing bugs
This anticipation and protection is done through:
validationsanitisationauthenticationmaintenancetesting