History

The Testing Guide v4 was released in 2014. The Testing guide originated in 2003 with Dan Cuthbert as one of the original editors. It was handed over to Eoin Keary in 2005 and transformed into a wiki. From 2013 Andrew Muller co-lead the project with Matteo Meucci into 2018/2019. Point releases after v4 and the ramp toward v5 is being lead by Rick Mitchell and Elie Saad.

• April, 2020: OWASP Testing Guide, Version 4.1

• September, 2014: OWASP Testing Guide, Version 4.0

• September, 2008: OWASP Testing Guide, Version 3.0

• December, 2006: OWASP Testing Guide, Version 2.0

• July, 2004: OWASP Web Application Penetration Checklist, Version 1.1

• December, 2004: The OWASP Testing Guide, Version 1.0

Leaders

• Matteo Meucci: OWASP Testing Guide Lead 2007-2020.

• Andrew Muller: OWASP Testing Guide Lead 2013-2019.

• Eoin Keary: OWASP Testing Guide Lead 2005-2007.

• Daniel Cuthbert: OWASP Testing Guide Lead 2003-2005.

v4 Authors

- Matteo Meucci          - Thomas Ryan       - Mike Hryekewicz  - Eduardo Castellano - Babu Arokiadas
- Pavol Luptak           - Tim Bertels       - Simon Bennetts   - Simone Onofri      - Rob Barnes
- Marco Morana           - Cecil Su          - Ray Schippers    - Harword Sheen      - Ben Walther
- Giorgio Fedon          - Aung KhAnt        - Raul Siles       - Amro AlOlaqi       - Anant Shrivastava
- Stefano Di Paola       - Norbert Szetei    - Jayanta Karmakar - Suhas Desai        - Colin Watson
- Gianrico Ingrosso      - Michael Boman     - Brad Causey      - Ryan Dewhurst      - Luca Carettoni
- Giuseppe Bonfà         - Wagner Elias      - Vicente Aguilera - Zaki Akhmad        - Eoin Keary
- Andrew Muller          - Kevin Horvat      - Ismael Gonçalves - Davide Danelon     - Jeff Williams
- Robert Winkel          - Tom Brennan       - David Fern       - Alexander Antukh   - Juan Manuel Bahamonde
- Roberto Suggi Liverani - Tomas Zatko       - Tom Eston        - Thomas Kalamaris   - Thomas Skora
- Tripurari Rai          - Juan Galiana Lara - Kevin Horvath    - Alexander Vavousis - Irene Abezgauz
- Robert Smith           - Sumit Siddharth   - Rick Mitchell    - Christian Heinrich - Hugo Costa

v4 Reviewers

- Davide Danelon          - Andrea Rosignoli     - Irene Abezgauz
- Lode Vanstechelman      - Sebastien Gioria     - Yiannis Pavlosoglou
- Aditya Balapure

v3 Authors

- Anurag Agarwwal        - Giorgio Fedon        - Gianrico Ingrosso         - Mark Roxberry
- Ferruh Mavituna        - Antonio Parata       - Andrew Van der Stock      - Marco Mella
- Daniele Bellucci       - Adam Goodman         - Roberto Suggi Liverani    - Cecil Su
- Kevin Horvath          - Marco Morana         - Harish Skanda Sureddy     - Pavol Luptak
- Matteo Meucci          - Stefano Di Paola     - Christian Heinrich        - Marco Morana

v3 Reviewers

- Marco Cova            - Matteo Meucci         - Rick Mitchell
- Kevin Fuller          - Nam Nguyen

v2 Authors

- Vicente Aguilera      - David Endler               - Matteo Meucci        - Anush Shetty
- Mauro Bregolin        - Giorgio Fedon              - Marco Morana         - Larry Shields
- Tom Brennan           - Javier Fernández-Sanguino  - Laura Nunez          - Dafydd Studdard
- Gary Burns            - Andrew van der Stock       - Glyn Geoghegan       - Gunter Ollmann
- Luca Carettoni        - Sebastien Deleersnyder     - Antonio Parata       - Ariel Waissbein
- Dan Cornell           - Madhura Halasgikar         - Yiannis Pavlosoglou  - Jeff Williams
- Mark Curphey          - Eoin Keary                 - Carlo Pelliccioni    - Tushar Vartak
- Daniel Cuthbert       - David Litchfield           - Harinath Pudipeddi   - Tom Ryan
- Stan Guzik            - Andrea Lombardini          - Alberto Revelli      - Claudio Merloni
- Stephen DeVries       - Ralph M. Los               - Stefano Di Paola     - Mark Roxberry

v2 Reviewers

- Vicente Aguilera      - Mauro Bregolin          - Daniel Cuthbert       - Stefano Di Paola
- Simona Forti          - Eoin Keary              - Katie McDowell        - Matteo Meucci
- Antonio Parata        - Mark Roxberry           - Marco Belotti         - Marco Cova
- Paul Davies           - Matteo G.P. Flora       - Darrell Groundy       - James Kist
- Marco Mella           - Syed Mohamed A.         - Alberto Revelli       - Dave Wichers