Tools for blockchain security checkup
Blockchains promise a great future and a wide range of opportunities, and all of the participants, users as well as developers, are looking for secure solutions to safeguard their data and assets. Apart from risk assessment testing, blockchain testing help to ensure the quality of products being tested, increasing testing coverage and zeroing risks associated with inadequate knowledge. There are a number of tools used to ensure blockchain security, which help to assess risks, analyze the ecosystem and detect vulnerabilities to data, applications or assets.
Main tools for the checkup
The list of tools to check up a blockchain security is very long. It includes a variety of means to test for almost any kind of risk or danger. The best known and widely used are the following:
- Ethereum and Ethereum tester. It is an open-source testing library, one of the most popular among users. It includes frameworks for developing applications and a manageable API support for a range of different requirements.
- BitcoinJ. It is a framework for Bitcoin-based applications based on Java, but it can be used with any compatible language, such as Python. It is not necessary to download BTC core files to use it, which simplifies the usage. It allows a direct interaction with Bitcoin and connects to its network. It also includes a library to work with the Bitcoin protocol. It provides the user with a range of testing utilities, which help to deal with such dangers as fake transactions.
- Populus. It is a framework developed around py.test. It is easy to work with and has the testing functionality of Etherum with a set of features for test contract deployment. It provides great powerful utilities for blockchain contract testing powered by the Python testing framework. Thus, it is one of the favorites among testers who prefer Python.
- Truffle. A very common and very popular framework among Ethereum developers. It offers a good range of testing features and utilities including automated contract testing and the ability to write automated tests for particular contracts in both JavaScript and Solidity, speeding up the development process.
- Embark. It is a testing framework focusing on developing decentralized applications which are run on a number of different systems and nodes. It helps to simplify and speed up the testing process. It easily integrates with Ethereum and decentralized communication platforms (like Whisper or Orbit).
- Ganache. It is the most popular library for testing contracts locally. It spins up a ‘mock blockchain’ which grants access to accounts which may be used for testing. It may not replicate real-world scenarios, but helps to compile the contract and debug it on the local level.
- Corda. It is an open-source ledger platform with testing features, which can help with creating contract and flow tests, integration testing and load testing.
- Exonum Testkit. It is a specific framework which offers testing of a whole service operation process and transaction execution in a synchronous environment without involving the consensus algorithm.
- Hyperledger composer. It is an open-source tool which includes a number of functions which help to build applications on a blockchain. It supports the following types of testing: interactive testing, automated unit testing and automated system testing. It also includes a command interface which provides the tester with commands to run interactive ‘smoke tests’, which help to check if the deployment was a success and helps to inspect the state of asset registries.
- Manticore. Manticore is a tool for smart contract and binary audits. It offers both automatic vulnerability detection and human-assisted analysis. It models attack scenarios to test the code security and is useful for crash-hunting, execution tracing, input checks and the like.
Conclusion
This is not all. The list of the testing frameworks, tools and libraries is long and verified which allows testers a great choice for any kind of issue. It helps to ensure the processes going on the blockchain and its environment are secure and friendly for the users and developers, looking for safeguarding of their data and assets.
About SmartState
Launched in 2019 and based in Dubai, SmartState is one of the leading DeFi security auditing firms. We conduct security tests and check the code core, smart contracts and blockchain for all types of errors, vulnerabilities and other issues.
Although SmartState gave a start to operations with smart contract auditing of DLT-projects, from the very beginning, we made our services surpass the classic purview of smart contract audit and security testing. We specialize in manual testing, so the SmartState’s tech team of white-hat security professionals measure up a project’s git and offer guidelines and recommendations for its further advancement. Security audit reports review the threats and vulnerabilities with which codebases may be exploited in the future, as the network achieves scalability and expands to accommodate more use cases and functionality.
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