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glass-box testing comparison table

Subject	allow	detect	be part of	involve	has definition	be	is a synonym of	is a kind of
testing				thinking of what could go wrong without actually studying the software	An approach to verification that involves systematically executing software to detect defects	complementary to inspecting		verification
glass-box testing	the tester to be more thorough than black-box testing	deadlock and livelock	a formal testing process only when testing critical or complex components	examining the design documents and the code, as well as observing at run time the steps taken by algorithms and their internal data	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	more time consuming than black-box testing	white-box testing	testing

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