LERSSE Poster Received an Honourable Mention Award at SOUPS 2022

LERSSE poster Systematization of Knowledge: Human, Organizational, and Technological Dimensions of Developers’ Challenges in Engineering Secure Softwarehas received an honourable mention award at SOUPS 2022, poster session.

 

Despite all attempts to improve software security, vulnerabilities are still propagated within the software. A growing body of research is looking into why developers are unable to develop secure software from the beginning. However, despite this attention, research efforts on developer challenges lack a coherent framework. We present a systematization of existing knowledge on the factors that make secure software development challenging for developers. We evaluated 126 papers to develop a framework of challenges that includes 17 areas of challenges in three dimensions of Human, Organizational, and Technological. These areas appear to influence each other directly and indirectly. Our work highlights the interplay of these areas and their consequences for secure software development. We discussed lessons learned from the framework, shed light on its role in assisting practitioners, and proposed directions for future research.