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| Subject | involve | is a kind of | be | has definition | 
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| testing | thinking of what could go wrong without actually studying the software | verification | complementary to inspecting | An approach to verification that involves systematically executing software to detect defects | 
| black-box testing | providing the system with inputs and observing the outputs, without seeing what is going on inside | testing | less time consuming than glass-box testing | A form of testing in which you manipulate inputs and observe outputs, but cannot observe the internals of the entity being tested | 
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