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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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