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title: "What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Black Box Testing?"  
description: "What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Black Box Testing?"  
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published: 2012-11-17  
updated: 2012-11-19  
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# What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Black Box Testing?

hello every one,

can you tell me what are the [Advantages](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12841/5-advantages-of-customer-portal-you-didn-t-know-about) &[amp](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156207/what-is-amp); [Disadvantages](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300577/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-web-3-0) of [Black Box](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/102273/what-is-the-concept-of-a-black-box-in-space-missions) [Testing](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1849/role-of-testing-in-software-development)?

thanks\

## Replies

### Reply by AVADHESH PATEL

hi chintoo,

advantages of [black](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83102/badi-elaichi-black-cardamom-health-benefits) box testing is given below\

**Advantages of Black Box Testing**

1-Tester can be non-technical.

2- Used to verify **contradictions** in actual system and the **specifications**.

3-Test cases can be designed as soon as the functional specifications are complete

## Disadvantages of Black Box Testing

1- The test inputs needs to be from large sample space.

2- It is difficult to identify all possible inputs in limited testing time. So writing test cases is slow and difficult

3-Chances of having unidentified paths during this testing.

4- Advantages are tester can be non-technical, easy to understand the **process**.

Disadvantages are it consumes lot of time and human resource.


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