Does automation testing comes under white box or black box testing? Or is it separate type of testing?

Testing can be of 2 types depending on who does it.

White-Box testing is done by the development team and Black-Box testing is done by the testing team.


Testing can also be categorized into Manual or Automation depending on how it is done.

Manual testing is applying the test cases manually by using the s/w build as an end-user would use it. Automation Testing is executing test scripts that apply test cases on the s/w build.

Both development and testing teams may use automation tools for their respective jobs in which case it can be called automation testing.

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Every testing tool available in market is basically for functional testing, regression testing, and performance testing.
These comes under black box testing.

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