Mahmood Al Rashdi
Standards and Guidelines: Mobile Application Security
As the requirement for security of applications and their data becomes increasingly crucial to both developers and users, it became apparent to SCENE project team to implement a set of standard controls to avoid known security holes and reduce the risks of exploits in the application. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) had developed a set of security guidelines… Read more →
Standards and Guidelines: User Experience
As we aim to provide a flawless experience for SCENE users, the design team is required to agree on a set of guidelines for the User Experience. Those guidelines will be considered as a baseline for the application design rather than rules that the team must strictly follow. Usability.gov offers Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines in a searchable database. The… Read more →
Standards and Guidelines: Android/iOS Coding Guidelines
It’s important that the development team building SCENE follows coding conventions and guidelines. Agreeing on a standard coding conventions make the application source code easily readable and consistent which in return will make the application more maintainable and help reduce errors in it. It will also help make the Testers and QA Team jobs much easier since they will be able… Read more →
Spam Prevention
In order to make SCENE a spam-free experience, there are a number of measures that can be implemented. The following techniques can be applicable to scenarios ranging from signing up with the application to controlling the number of “check-in” per user for a certain venue/event. 1. Captcha and the Honeypot Technique: one or a combination of these 2 can be used… Read more →