Gray Box Testing

Example of gray box testing definition, implementation, advantages, disadvantages

DEFINITION

Gray box testing is a software testing method that is a combination of trial and Black Box White Box testing method. In Black Box testing, the internal structure of the item being tested is unknown to the tester and White Box Testing the internal structure of the known. In the gray box testing, the internal structure is partially known. This implies access to internal data structures and algorithms for design purposes of the test cases, but evidence on the user, or black box level.

Gray box testing is so named because the software program in the eyes of the examiner is like a gray / semi-transparent box, inside which you can see a part.

EXAMPLE
An example of gray box testing is when the codes of two modules, are studied (White Box testing method) for the design of test cases and actual tests are performed in the interfaces exposed (Black box testing method).

Levels applicable to
Despite gray box testing method can be used at other levels of the test is particularly useful in integrating evidence.

ADVANTAGES OF THE GRAY BOX TESTING
* Determine the combined advantages of Black Box Testing and White Box Testing.

DISADVANTAGES OF THE GRAY BOX TESTING
* Determine the combination of the disadvantages of Black Box Testing and White Box Testing.

Note that Gray is also spelled as gray. So Gray box testing gray box testing and mean the same thing.

I am a desert fox

When I was young
I made the White Box

During the dark years
I made the Black Box

Now that my hair turns gray
And the nights turn into days
I'm in the gray box.