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From the course: Dynamic Application Security Testing
Testing in non-production
- [Announcer] In order to perform your security testing without impacting production, you should perform some but not all of your testing in a non-production environment. Performing your dynamic application security test in a non-production environment comes with a slew of benefits. When you think of non-prod, think of it as gloves off, no holds barred. You could run each and every test in your arsenal even if you think those tests might break something. Why? Because you're allowed to break things in non-production. That's the whole point. When you're testing in an environment dedicated to testing, you can work out the bugs before making your app available to end users. You also get a chance to run tests that you'd never be allowed to run against the production application, just in case those tests might cause a slowdown or corrupt the database. It's important that you run these tests in non-prod because guess what?…