Give at least three examples in which black-box testing might give the impression that everything’s OK, while white box tests might uncover an error.

Give at least 4 examples in which black-box testing might give the impression that everything’s OK, while white box tests might uncover an error.

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on January 5, 2010 at 11:09am

Please give few examples yaar.

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Permalink Reply by Bhumika on January 5, 2010 at 11:25am

One example -
For login window, suppose you provide uname and passwd and click "Cancel", it turns to the login window again but database still maintains the record and saves it.
In this case, black box testing will verify that "Cancel" button working properly and login window turns up again. But only white box testing would be able to make sure whether the cacelled data has really been discarded or not

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on January 7, 2010 at 12:45pm

Bhumika... thanks for the one.

I would like to be more clear on this.
Can you give few other examples?

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Permalink Reply by Dr M V Ananathakrishnan on January 5, 2010 at 3:14pm

PLEASE see this site
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/aia/ch_5_4.html

Best of Luck!

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Permalink Reply by Abhijeet Bhagat on January 6, 2010 at 4:13am

1. Login Counter :
Black Box testing may not be able to overwhelm a certain data type value say Int 65326 but if developer is keeping track of login counters the the integer value may be overwhelmed soon and there is a possibility of error. Looping in whitebox(Statement coverage?) would find the issue.

2 MS Calc : sqrt(4)=2, sqrt(2) =1.412........ again reverse the order i.e sqr(1.412....)=2,sqr(2)=4
Functionally this is right and even the display will show you four(4)
Now just subtract 4 from the result and you get a precision error. This would have been easily detected in unit(white box) testing.Think what a disaster it could be for a banking application.

3.when there is a never ending loop trigger by setting something in the application say. a vehicle reached Times Square=True and once true a while loop keeps initiating x classes. Functionally here nothing would be wrong but this could be a disaster in terms of memory leak.

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on January 7, 2010 at 12:52pm

Hi,

I like the 2nd example.
The shame at my side is no.of times i have used MS Calc, but i did not noticed it till now.

But we can find this even in black box testing right...? We can't say here Blackbox testing is masking this error.

Could you have any interesting examples plz post.

Thanks for your response.

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Permalink Reply by Aleksandar Karamfilov on January 7, 2010 at 7:33pm

A lot of errors will be missed if we use only black-box testing. That is well known fact. That's why we should perform both. Most of the black-box tests doesn't cover mixed examples. We cant be sure that program will run all of the internal statements and all logical path will be covered. That is possible missed bugs. Its the same like if you don't test part of the program. For example we cant catch memory leaks with black box testing. Program can allocate a lot of memory for something without releasing it.

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on January 7, 2010 at 7:47pm

Thanks for your response.

I will glad if you explain with a good example.

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Permalink Reply by Aleksandar Karamfilov on January 7, 2010 at 8:37pm

I will look for something short to show you. Most of the examples are difficult to explain.
I mean i have to give a lot of introduction before you get the difference. It is connected with a lot terminology also. How familiar you are with coding? In white box testing this is vital to be familiar what is happening in program. If you dont get the logic you cant test it.
Most of security problems and encapsulation problems cant be found with black box testing just because there is no way for you to see what is happening inside. Program seem to be secure.
You can login and program makes difference between correct and incorrect password but hackers cant easily get your information with just few tricks using sql injection etc.

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on January 7, 2010 at 8:42pm

Hey thanks for your patience and time.

I would like to see a good example, i know you need to give lot of introduction, but please do whenever the time permits you.

Thanks again.

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on January 11, 2010 at 12:19pm

Do you have any other examples?

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Koushal V on June 3, 2010 at 5:50pm

Hi Abhijeet... I hope you are doing good.

I like the second example that you have give. It is interesting. Do you any other examples like this...? If YES, share with me.

Thank you.