What Is Grey Box Testing ?

‘Grey Box’ testing is a testing approach which is executed with the restricted information or intelligence around the inner utility of the application or software.

The testers who perform this testing need to have access to the thorough design documents as well as information around the requirements or client needs.

Normally gray box tests are created based on the UML diagrams, UML architecture, state-based patterns and objective mechanisms diagrams.

Advantages Of Grey Box Testing:- There are several types of advantages of grey box testing. Few advantages are mentioned as below --

•  Grey-box testing delivers mixed advantages of both black box testing and white box testing.
• Grey box tester can deal and can plan complicated test scenarios more judiciously.
• Normally grey box testing founded on the functional specification, database diagrams, uml diagrams and architectural view
• The main advantages of the grey box testing is that it supports the border among the developers and testers.
• Grey box testing is completely suitable for the web based application.
• Grey box testing is a excellent technique for the domain testing or functional testing.

Disadvantages Of Grey Box Testing:- There are also some disadvantages of the gray box testing. Few drawbacks are mentioned as below --

• It is very complex to find out the bugs or defects while doing grey box testing for any distributed system.
• While performing grey box testing, whole white box testing can not be finished because of unapproachable source code.