Open talk: Problems in user data validation and how to tackle them

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Talk description

Most apps are designed to be used by users, but while some sort of data validation is common, many edgecases are often unhandled.
Furthermore these problems can occur at every part of the application, beginning with the UI/UX, frontend, backend and finally stopping at the database level.

A few examples:

• Expecting text but the user doesn't provide any
• Whitespaces in input text where there shouldn't be
• Splitting free text fields into sub fields, e.g. address into address components
• Checking for duplicates
• Character encoding between systems as well as systems only supporting partial character sets

Talk length (in Minutes)

• Lightning talk (20-30 Minutes)
• Main talk (45-60 Minutes)

Preferred language

• German
• English

Talk preparation

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• No, thanks.

Preferred date/time

Preparation time of at least 1-2 months would be great, as it would allow for surveys across meetup attendees.

Speaker names

Can be me.