Web Development
It takes a lot of work to create really great applications and even more to maintain the evolution of those applications over time. In the past 20 years, the Internet has progressed exponentially. Take, for example, the original Facebook page, which was called www.aboutface.com in 1999. If you use the Internet archive site called the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org, you can see what Facebook looked like two decades ago (see Figure 11.1). What I love about the Wayback Machine is that if you want, you can right‐click the website archived and view the page source.
Figure 11.1: The original Facebook.com in 2000 called AboutFace.com
The progression of the Web has led to a need for the evolution of web application testing. Back in the day, a web page was a static page, and the flow of information was from server to browser. Most sites did not require any type of authentication because it just wasn't needed. Any issue you had was as a result of vulnerabilities...
