Glass Box Testing. Benefits and Shortcomings

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Synonyms for Glass Box Testing: Glass-box testing is also called: • • • •

Clear Box testing Structural testing Open Box Testing White Box testing

Benefits of Glass Box Testing: • • • • •

reveals defects in “hidden” code beneficent side-effects optimizations approximates the partitioning done by execution equivalence forces test developer to reason carefully about implementation

Shortcomings of Glass Box Testing: • •

miss cases omitted in the code costly

Intermix of Glass-box and Black- box In practice we have such approaches: • •

program executes differently under two inputs with same specs program executes two inputs the same which have different specs

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