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glass-box testing (structural testing, white-box testing)
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glass-box testing	allows the tester to be more thorough than black-box testing
	can detect deadlock and livelock
	has definition A form of testing in which the tester can examine the design documents and the code, as well as analyze and possibly manipulate the internal state of the entity being tested
	involves examining the design documents and the code, as well as observing at run time the steps taken by algorithms and their internal data
	is more time consuming than black-box testing
	is part of a formal testing process only when testing critical or complex components
	is a subtopic of 10.2 - Effective and Efficient Testing
	is a kind of testing
	is a synonym of structural testing
	is a synonym of white-box testing
testing	can find defects whose consequences are obvious but which are buried in complex code, and thus will be hard to detect when inspecting
	requires attention to detail
process	see also process^2