ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
To avoid per-call fees and request limits while verifying authentication, input validation, and error handling in a new e-commerce checkout service that invokes a third-party tax API, the team will test in staging. Per CSSLP guidance on simulated testing, which approach best meets this need without calling the live provider?
Import a recent production database snapshot into QA and run manual functional tests against the live tax API.
Rely solely on static code analysis of the checkout module to identify input-handling vulnerabilities before release.
Create virtual instances of the tax-calculation service in a staging environment and execute a suite of automated synthetic checkout transactions covering normal and error paths.
Commission an external black-box penetration test against the production site to uncover exploitable flaws in the checkout process.
Simulating external dependencies in a staging environment lets testers observe application behavior without using costly, rate-limited third-party services. Deploying a virtual tax-calculation API and driving the checkout flow with automated synthetic transactions exercises authentication, input validation, and error-handling paths under realistic but controlled conditions. Importing production data, relying only on static analysis, or performing a live penetration test do not provide the required end-to-end simulated interaction while staying within the provider's limits.
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