Raw Results for the Preliminary Survey on Awareness of Secure Coding Guidelines in the Industry

The study is part of a design research effort: the design of a serious game to raise awareness for secure coding and to increase knowledge of secure coding guidelines among software developers. This repository contains the raw results of the data collected on awareness of vulnerabilities and training levels of industrial software developers from three different companies in the months of August, September and October 2019. This survey contains results on questions on why software developers comply with secure coding guidelines. It also covers questions to understand how well secure software development practices are established in the industry, the factors that influence whether industrial software engineers comply with secure coding guidelines, and the knowledge of software developers of secure coding guidelines. The design of the survey is based on the personal experience of the author and also on the following established theories: policy compliance, neutralization theory and security-related stress