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Solution: Refactor Java code susceptible to injection attacks

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Solution: Refactor Java code susceptible to injection attacks

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(upbeat music) - [Tutor] Now it's time to show you my solution. But before we get there, I want to chat a little bit about the testing strategies that I used, because I think it's a very good one. Now, first and foremost, I'm a big fan of writing tests. I especially like to spend time on negative and boundary conditions. I guess a lot of this comes from my entry into this industry as a software tester. Now I'm going to assume that you're using TDD or some similar process. And if so, the first thing you're going to do is write your happy path test. Now you should write a test that implements an injection attack, and you saw that in my example. You should do this for every single data access method that accepts input. And if you have multiple inputs, you should write a test that injects into each one of those. There's a valid reason for doing this. It lets you test each of those conditions separately, and now you're going…

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