I’ve tested all major features and everything works as expected, but security scanners keep reporting issues.
I’m trying to understand why these problems don’t show up during normal testing and what I might be missing?!
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I’ve tested all major features and everything works as expected, but security scanners keep reporting issues.
I’m trying to understand why these problems don’t show up during normal testing and what I might be missing?!
Takeaway: Functional correctness and security resilience are separate qualities, and passing one doesn’t imply the other.
Functional tests and security scans are designed to answer very different questions. Functional testing focuses on whether the application behaves correctly for expected user actions, while security scans focus on how the application behaves under malicious or unexpected input.
OWASP-style scans typically flag issues like missing security headers, weak cookie attributes, unsafe defaults, or edge cases where input handling breaks down. These problems don’t usually interrupt normal workflows, which is why they pass functional testing. They become relevant only when someone deliberately probes the application’s boundaries.