microsoft / microsoft/ApplicationInspector

More Comprehensive Rules Verifier Self-Test Report

Open
#507 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

enhancement good first issue
Dominant language
C#
Stars
4.4k
Forks
366
Avg merge
6d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

Description

Rule self-tests only confirm that the rule as a whole matched a sample. It may be the case that a rule looks for multiple different things in the same category and you'd like to have self-tests to audit that you have samples for every pattern in every rule. The same perhaps for conditions.

Other potential enhancements:

  1. Mechanism to indicate where the expected match in the must-match should be

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

The issue names rule self-tests, must-match expectations, and conditions but no files or tests. Start by locating the existing self-test verifier and its handling of rules and conditions; define done as a report that identifies uncovered patterns and supports the listed expected-match indication.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
security, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.