Whitebox/Blackbox testing

[Ripper]

Can someone please explain these to me in simple terms? Reading wikipedia and what not just complicates things for my small brain.

I'm in the process of testing an application I've done and I'm not sure if what i've done is either of these. For example, I have questions/tasks I've asked the user to complete, a set of replies and results from these questions/tasks, and conclusions made all in a jazzy table. The results were as I expected.

Any help much appreciated.

 

[voodooflux]

If your tests deal solely with verifying that a certain set of input data produces the expected output then that would be Black Box testing.

White Box testing is more low level, performed on an "intimate level" with the code, exercising as many of the code paths as possible.

 

[Ripper]

Brill, thanks mate, black box it is