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title: "Merits and demerits of White box testing?"  
description: "Merits and demerits of White box testing?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-01-17  
updated: 2020-09-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/323/merits-and-demerits-of-white-box-testing  
category: "whitebox testing"  
tags: ["whitebox testing"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Merits and demerits of White box testing?

## Merits of Whitebox Testing:

· More code coverage

· More error can be found earlier during the development process.

· The whitebox testing could start in the early phase along with softwrae development.

· Just a main module from developer is enough to start to test by using stubs.

· Helps giving more stable build

## Demerits of Whitebox Testing::

· More time consuming to develop test cases as it involves development effort

· Often new architecture need to be designed to suit your testing needs.

· Testers need to be involved in requirements, software design document review also.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

## Merits of Whitebox Testing:

· More code coverage

· More error can be found earlier during the development process.

· The whitebox testing could start in the early phase along with softwrae development.

· Just a main module from developer is enough to start to test by using stubs.

· Helps giving more stable build

## Demerits of Whitebox Testing::

· More time consuming to develop test cases as it involves development effort

· Often new architecture need to be designed to suit your testing needs.

· Testers need to be involved in requirements, software design document review also.


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