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I never had whitebox testers... But I know that blackbox testers have one advantage: they can do things that are really unexpected. Since they don't know how
by speeder 14y ago
I never had whitebox testers...
But I know that blackbox testers have one advantage: they can do things that are really unexpected.
Since they don't know how the thing work, they don't know what to expect, and can do whatever they want, and sometimes whatever they want was not what you had in mind.
As a programmer I do test every possible code path sometimes. Yet some people seemly find "impossible" code paths, sometimes finding bugs that are not even my logic fault (ie: sometimes it is a bizarre combination of factors that break things for no clear reason, like the legendary tale of the CEO that crashed the system every time he entered the lab... or the 500 mile e-mail)
- grumps 14y agoFully agree RE: don't know how things work.
- speeder 14y agoI cannot find the link for the CEO tale... It was a company that made security cameras, and the software crashed every single time they invited the CEO to see it, making the CEO start to believe they were full of shit. Until one day, someone noticed that the CEO was the only person that entered every single day in the room wearing a checkered shirt, and that they used a version of jpeg for compression that disliked checker patterns. The 500 mile e-mail: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html