What’s the difference between a White Box test and a Black Box test?
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Answer / chaitanya
Information given by the person commissioning the test. A White Box test is one where the pen testing team is given as much information as possible regarding the environment, while a Black Box test is…well…a Black Box. They don’t know what’s inside.
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Answer / anonymus
black box testing is testing functionality of s/w with out knowing internal code as a end user. where as white box testing one should have the knowledge of internal s/wr code and environment to check working of your soft ware code
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