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DEFINITION: A black box is any device whose workings are not understood by or accessible to its user. According to Edward Tenner, writing in The Washington Post, the first black box was a gun sight carried on World War II Flying Fortresses, with hidden components that corrected for environmental variables, such as wind speed. The crew probably didn't know how the device worked, but they knew it might be crucial
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Glass Box Testing: Thinking Inside the Box
sponsored by IBM
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Web application testing now has the glass box approach – one which combines the benefits of both black box and white box methods. View this whitepaper to learn how it work, how it compares to other tools, and the benefits it has to offer.
Posted: 08 Mar 2013 | Published: 30 Dec 2011
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Quickly Pinpoint and Resolve Problems in Windows/.NET Applications
sponsored by BMC Software, Extending Value with Identify Software
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Discover the most common .NET application problems, strategies to accelerate the problem resolution process and how to resolve issues faster.
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Optimizing Application Monitoring
sponsored by GroundWork, Inc.
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After studying dozens of designs for application monitoring, it has been found that the optimal solution is often achieved through simple synthetic transaction monitors.
Posted: 07 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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BLACK BOX TESTING DEFINITION (continued):
to their survival. Nowadays, there are two types of black box carried on aircraft, which may be combined into a single device: a flight data recorder (FDR), which logs information such as speed and altitude, and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which logs all voice communication in the cockpit. These black boxes also carry beacons to help find the aircraft in a rescue situation.A sampling of other black boxes:In telecommunications, a black box is a resistor connected to a phone line that makes it impossible for the telephone company's equipment to detect when a call has been answered.In data mining,
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