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Analysis of various testing techniques

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Testing is the process of exercising a program with the explicit goal of detecting errors prior to delivery to the end user. There are a variety of testing techniques available. They are broadly classified into black box techniques and white box testing techniques. Strategies for black box testing are based on the specification of the software component under test. Tests developed using the black box techniques detect errors against the functional requirements of software. On the other hand strategies for white box testing are based on the internal logic of software components. White box test suites are derived from the source code of the software component under test. This paper aims to study various testing techniques and their comparative analysis. The first section of the paper is a qualitative description of various White box and black box testing techniques. The second section of the paper uses C programs to demonstrate the process of testing used by different testing techniques. The paper uses ten C programs for testing. Two cases are used as illustrations in the second section of the paper. The paper presents the results of testing different programs of varying complexity using seven types of testing techniques. The last section presents a comparative analysis of various testing techniques on different parameters and their results.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, New Delhi Institution of Management, New Delhi, India

    Kamaldeep Kaur

  2. Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University, Noida, India

    Sunil Kumar Khatri

  3. Mohyal Educational and Research Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Rattan Datta

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Table 15 Comparison of black box and white box testing
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Table 16 Comparison of various white box testing techniques (control flow testing, data flow testing and mutation testing)
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Table 17 Comparison of various black box testing techniques (equivalence class partitioning, boundary value analysis, SUT and cause effect graphing)
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Table 18 List of programs tested
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Kaur, K., Khatri, S.K. & Datta, R. Analysis of various testing techniques. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 5, 276–290 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-013-0157-6

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