Black Box Testing
What is Black Box Testing?
A security testing approach where the tester has no prior knowledge of the target system's internal workings, simulating an external attacker.
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What the standards actually require on black box testing
Requirements naming black box testing across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Table A.6 lists the integration techniques: functional (black-box) testing (per Table A.14) HR at every SIL including Basic Integrity, and performance testing (Table A.18) R at SIL 1 and 2 and HR at SIL 3 and 4.
en-50126-en-50128-en-50129-railway-applications-rams::50128:A.6 · Table A.6: integration (7.3 and 7.6) →For software validation the table lists probabilistic testing, process simulation, modelling, functional and black-box testing (HR at every SIL), and forward traceability from the SSRS to the software validation plan, and backward from that plan to the SSRS (b...
iec-61508-2010-functional-safety-of-e-e-pe-safety-related-systems::3-A.7 · Part 3, Annex A Table A.7 Software aspects of system safety validation techniques →Table A.7 grades three overall-level techniques: performance testing (Table A.18) HR at SIL 1 and 2 and M at SIL 3 and 4; dynamic analysis and testing, expanded in Table A.13, HR at Basic Integrity to SIL 2 and M at SIL 3 and 4;
en-50716-2023-railway-applications-requirements-for-software-development::A.7 · Table A.7: overall software analysis and testing (6.2 and 7.2) →Validation shows that the process in the work instruction meets the requirements agreed with the client, by evidence that it gives correct outputs for the defined inputs, without looking at how it is implemented;
iso-iec-27041-2015::5.9.1 · 5.9.1 General principles of validation →Questions people ask about black box testing
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