Assessing and improving encapsulation for minimizing vulnerability of an object oriented design

Abstract

Like quality, proper blend of object oriented design (OOD) concepts may improve security of the software under development. The paper aims to find out the role of encapsulation in improving security of an OOD. A Vulnerability Confinement Capacity (VCC) metric is proposed to verify the vulnerability confinement strength of a class as well as of an OOD. The same is used to compare security of object oriented designs. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.