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White-box testing is a method that inspects internal structures, implementation and program logic by design. Developers or testers use knowledge of the code to design granular test cases and exercise paths, conditions and data flows. It applies to unit and integration levels and enables fast fault feedback.
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White-box testing examines software with knowledge of its internal structure, such as control flow, conditions, paths, or code coverage.
The technique grew from structural testing methods in software engineering; IEEE 829 standardized test-activity documentation in 1998, and frameworks such as JUnit made code-oriented tests executable in daily development.
Choose the relevant internal structure, derive test cases and coverage criteria, run them automatically or deliberately, and assess gaps together with risk.
The possible sequence of statements and branches in a program.
A measure of which structural parts were executed by tests.
The defined basis for judging whether a test result is correct.
White-box tests expose structural gaps early and complement tests that observe only inputs and outputs.
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