Contributing to Suricata: from test clean-ups to adding new features

Women of Suricata brings to you a follow-up to our beginner's guide to start contributing to Suricata. Join us to learn more on test clean-ups and adding feature support

In this webinar, our Outreachy interns for 2021/2022 share their experiences in cleaning-up and creating Suricata unit tests, adding integrating tests to Suricata, and how to approach the Suricata codebase to add on a frame support for certain protocols.

About our speakers:

Modupe Falodun: A Nigerian living in Nigeria. A year’s experience in software development, passionate about learning, volunteering and creating solutions, with a growing interest in InfoSec. Her project with OISF is for improving Suricata QA by cleaning-up unit tests and adding more tests to Suricata-Verify.

Sam Muhammed is an InfoSec enthusiast, with a focus on Reverse Engineering and the Malware World. With a growing interest to Open Source, her project with OISF is adding frame support to Suricata.

Join us and our enthusiastic interns as they talk about their projects tasks, focusing on:

- Outreachy and how to apply

- Testing and why it is important in the development process

- Understanding the differences between Unit and Integration tests

- How to convert tests to Suricata-Verify

- Contributing to Suricata with or without Outreachy

- Adding Frame Support to an existing application layer protocol in Suricata

- What have they learned during the Internship