What is Grey Box Testing? Techniques. What is Gray Box Testing? Gray Box Testing is a technique to test the software product or application with partial knowledge of an application's internal processes. This often identifies context-specific errors associated with web systems. It increases test coverage by focusing on all layers of a complex system. Gray Box Testing is a software testing method which is a combination of White-Box Testing and Black Box Testing method. •
In White Box testing internal structure (code) is known
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In Black Box check internal structure (code) is unknown
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In Grey Box Testing internal structure (code) is partially known
Why Is Gray Box Testing Gray Box Test is performed for the following reason, •
It offers combined benefits of black box testing and white box testing both
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It combines the input of developers as well as testers and improves the overall product quality
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It reduces overhead of long process of testing functional and non-functional types
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There is enough free time for a developer to fix defects
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Testing is done from the user's point of view and not from a designer's point of view