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"Black box" testing tests a device, program, application, etc., as a whole. Inputs are provided and the results monitored. The internal workings of the tested item are not relevant and may be unknown. "Functional testing" is a type of "Black box testing", but not all "black box" tests have to be "functional".

Black box testing tests a device, program, application, etc., as a whole.

Inputs are provided and the output results monitored. The internal workings of the tested item are not relevant and may be unknown.

Black box testing and Functional testing are sometimes used synonymously, but Functional testing is really a subset. "Non functional" tests, like Stress testing are often done in a "black box" manner.

Compare and contrast to Unit testing and White box testing.

References:

  1. Black-box testing on Wikipedia
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Black Box Testing for the Software Test Specification

I am working on the Black Box case as part of a Software Test Document and I am not quite sure how to do it. My professor states that we dont need to provide actual results. I am just confused as to what and how I am suppose to do this. Is there…
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black box testing chat applicationc#

I have server chat application written on C#, that just receives the messages from the sender. I need to do black box testing. I researched on the internet and found that black-box testing is just a testing of input and output, but there is no real…
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Dynamic Black Box testing vs Static White Box testing

If we had to make a choice between Dynamic Black Box testing vs Static White Box testing which one should we prefer ? Dynamic Blackbox testing is testing without having an insight of the underlying code whereas Static White box testing is code…
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How to automation testing with a Console Application with already test cases set

I just complete a Java CONSOLE application for Student Management. I received a test case set (pdf file contains lines follow according to the requirements of the application) build based on the standard program (from my lecturer). You can overview…
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Should I add white/black box rendundant Unit Tests?

I've written black-box unit tests for my project. After a refactoring, I've adopted a strategy pattern in my code. This code is covered by the black-box unit test, even after the refactoring. However I was wondering: should I add white-box unit…
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Test harness for lab setup

We are new to test automation, and finally we finally automated our setup (black box testing). A brief overview of our setup: Each setup consists of 2 linux PCs and 1 windows PC - the PCs communicate to one another via an embedded board. Before we…
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Black box test plan to see whether a value is hard coded

I need to make a manual test plan (black box testing) to see whether a value is hard coded in a drop down list (its' the acceptance criteria). Can anybody give me any suggestions on that? Thanks in advance Saj
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Performing boundary value testing on float range

I want to perform boundary value analysis on a program which takes 3 float variables as input and returns the largest out of them. There's no range specified hence I impose the range to be the one implied by the no. of bytes used to store float…
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What do the terms "white box testing" and "black box testing" mean?

Hi everyone my question is not about programming. Rather it is on software development plans. Can someone explain these 2 to me am getting a bit of confusion: White box testing Blackbox testing Also it would be appreciated if someone gives me…
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