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-So what is the starting point of black box testing? Black

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-box testing start from a description of the software or as we

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-call it, a functional specification. And the final result of black

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-box testing is a set of test cases, a set of actual

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-inputs and corresponding outputs that we can use to exercise our

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-code and to try to find defects in our code. So the

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-question is, how do we get from functional specification to test

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-cases? Doing these derivations, so going from this description to a concrete

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-set of tests, is a very complex analytical process.

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-And normally brute force generation is not a good

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-idea because it's inefficient and ineffective. What we want

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-to do instead is to have a systematic approach to

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-derive test cases from a functional specification. What a

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-systematic approach does is to simplify the overall problem by

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-dividing the process into elementary steps. In particular, in

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-this case, we will perform three main steps. The first

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-step is to identify independently testable features. Individual features in

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-the soft hood that we can test. And we're going to

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-expand on each one of these steps in the next

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-part of the lesson. The following step is once we have

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-these independently testable features to identify what are the relevant

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-inputs. So what are the inputs or the behavior that is

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-worth testing for these features. Next once we have these

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-inputs, we're going to derive test

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-specifications. And test case specifications are

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-description of the test cases that we can then use

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-to generate actual test cases. And proceeding in this way,

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-by this steps, has many advantages. It allows for the

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-coupling different activities. It allows for dividing brain intensive steps from

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-steps that can be automated, which is a great advantage.

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-And also we will see, it allows you for monitoring

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-the testing process. So to figure out whether your testing

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-process is going as expected, for example, if you're generating too

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-many test cases. Or you're generating the number of test cases that your

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-amount of resources available allows you to run. So let's start by looking

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-at the first step of this process in which our goal is to

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-go from a Functional Specification to a set of features that we can

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-test in the software. So what we want to do is to identify all

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-of the feature of the software. And why do we want to do this?

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-Well you know, in the spirit of breaking down the complexity of the

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-problem, it does not make sense to just try to devise test cases for

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-all the features of the software at once. For any non-trivial

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-software, that's a humongous problem, and something that we cannot really

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-handle effectively. A much better way is to identify independently testable

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-features and consider one of them at a time when generating tests.