gray-box testing

A form of grey-box testing — A combination of black-box testing and white-box testing, where knowledge about the internal data structures and algorithms is used to design tests while executing those tests at the user, or black-box, level.

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noungray-box testing (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountabletestingcomputingAlternative form of grey-box testing.
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