White-box testing

• A central objective of white-box testing is to increase coverage

  • That is, ensure that as much code in the program as possible is exercised
  • The theory is that any code that is exercised by no test case is likely to have defects

• The actual output may, at times, be of secondary interest

• For large systems, effective white-box testing requires tool support

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