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Definitions of Gray box Testing

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Topic: Definitions of Gray box Testing
Posted By: tanushree
Subject: Definitions of Gray box Testing
Date Posted: 11Oct2007 at 12:25am
Definitions of Gray box testing:

Gray box testing
- Tests involving inputs and outputs, but test design is educated by information about the code or the program operation of a kind that would normally be out of scope of view of the tester.

Gray box testing
- Test designed based on the knowledge of algorithm, internal states, architectures, or other high -level descriptions of the program behavior. [Doug Hoffman]

Gray box testing - Examines the activity of back-end components during test case execution. Two types of problems that can be encountered during gray-box testing are:
# A component encounters a failure of some kind, causing the operation to be aborted. The user interface will typically indicate that an error has occurred.
# The test executes in full, but the content of the results is incorrect. Somewhere in the system, a component processed data incorrectly, causing the error in the results.



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