Gray Box Testing Advantages and Disadvantages
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Topic: Gray Box Testing Advantages and Disadvantages
Posted By: tanushree
Subject: Gray Box Testing Advantages and Disadvantages
Date Posted: 11Oct2007 at 12:28am
Advantages
Offers Combined Benefits – Leverage strengths of both Black Box and White Box testing wherever possible.
Non Intrusive –
Gray Box does not rely on access to source code or binaries. Instead,
based on interface definition, functional specifications, and
application architecture.
Intelligent Test Authoring
– Based on the limited information available, a Gray Box tester can
author intelligent test scenarios, especially around data type
handling, communication protocols and exception handling.
Unbiased Testing –
The demarcation between testers and developer is still maintained. The
handoff is only around interface definitions and documentation without
access to source code or binaries.
Disadvantages
Partial Code Coverage –
Since the source code or binaries are not available, the ability to
traverse code paths is still limited by the tests deduced through
available information. The coverage depends on the tester authoring
skills.
Defect Identification
– Inherent to distributed application is the difficult associated in
defect identification. Gray Box testing is still at the mercy of how
well systems throw exceptions and how well are these exceptions
propagated with a distributed Web Services environment.
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