SPECIFICATION-BASED (BLACK-BOX) TECHNIQUES
The main thing about specification-based techniques is that they derive test cases directly from the specification or from some other kind of model of what the system should do. The source of information on which to base testing is known as the ‘test basis‘. If a test basis is well defined and adequately structured we can easily identify test conditions from which test cases can be derived.
The most important point about specification-based techniques is that specifications or models do not (and should not) define how a system should achieve the specified behaviour when it is built; it is a specification of the required (or at least desired) behaviour. One of the hard lessons that software engineers ...
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