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QA Black Box Testing Explained
If you have been around the QA world for a while, there is a good chance you have heard of doing black box testing. Part of making sure an application is ready to be deployed is by testing it in various ways.
This article will cover:
- What is Black Box Testing
- Types of Black Box Testing
- How To Perform Black Box Testing
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Black Box Testing
Think of black box testing as you driving your car. You don’t know all of the little technical details of how your car works, but you do know that when you press the gas you expect your car to move. The same applies here for black box testing. In black box testing, the person performing the test has no knowledge of the internal structure or source code of the application, but they know when they perform an action, an expected reaction should follow. You may be wondering why don’t we need to know the inner workings of this type of testing. Simple, it’s not needed.
Black box testing is done from the perspective of an end user. End users typically don’t have access to the…
