How to Break Web Software
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"How to Break Web Software" is a software testing book that focuses on systematically finding security and reliability flaws in web applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| How to Break Web Software canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5996893 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Break Web Software Context triple: [James Whittaker (software engineer), notableWork, How to Break Web Software]
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A.
SmartBear Software
SmartBear Software is a software company known for its tools that support API development, testing, and monitoring, including stewardship of the popular Swagger ecosystem.
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B.
Metasploit Framework
Metasploit Framework is an open-source penetration testing platform widely used for developing, testing, and executing exploits against remote targets.
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C.
BeEF
BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework) is a penetration testing tool focused on exploiting web browsers to assess and demonstrate client-side security vulnerabilities.
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D.
Burp Suite
Burp Suite is a popular integrated platform for web application security testing, widely used by penetration testers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
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E.
OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security testing tool used to find vulnerabilities in web applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Break Web Software Target entity description: "How to Break Web Software" is a software testing book that focuses on systematically finding security and reliability flaws in web applications.
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A.
SmartBear Software
SmartBear Software is a software company known for its tools that support API development, testing, and monitoring, including stewardship of the popular Swagger ecosystem.
-
B.
Metasploit Framework
Metasploit Framework is an open-source penetration testing platform widely used for developing, testing, and executing exploits against remote targets.
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C.
BeEF
BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework) is a penetration testing tool focused on exploiting web browsers to assess and demonstrate client-side security vulnerabilities.
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D.
Burp Suite
Burp Suite is a popular integrated platform for web application security testing, widely used by penetration testers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
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E.
OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security testing tool used to find vulnerabilities in web applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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software testing book ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
browser-based client-server systems
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web applications ⓘ web services ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
fault injection for web applications
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input validation vulnerabilities ⓘ security testing techniques ⓘ session management vulnerabilities ⓘ state-based testing of web applications ⓘ systematic discovery of reliability flaws in web applications ⓘ systematic discovery of security flaws in web applications ⓘ test case design for web applications ⓘ |
| genre |
computer science
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computer security ⓘ software engineering ⓘ software testing ⓘ |
| goal |
help readers think like attackers when testing web software
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improve the reliability of web applications ⓘ improve the security of web applications ⓘ |
| hasForm |
printed book
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technical reference ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
quality assurance professionals
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security engineers ⓘ software developers ⓘ software testers ⓘ |
| isAbout |
finding reliability flaws in web software
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finding security flaws in web software ⓘ systematic software testing methodologies for the web ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
software reliability
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web application security ⓘ web application testing ⓘ |
| teaches |
how to design tests that expose reliability problems
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how to design tests that expose security weaknesses ⓘ systematic approaches to finding web application defects ⓘ |
| title | How to Break Web Software ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: How to Break Web Software Description of subject: "How to Break Web Software" is a software testing book that focuses on systematically finding security and reliability flaws in web applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.