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A Black-Box is a Conceptual interface to any System of perhaps unknown, or unknowable, internal Complexity and/or construction.
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A Black-Box can be tested, or understood, by observing its external behaviour. In particular, any System can be judged as to whether its Requirements have been met, without necessarily understanding how they were met (i.e. which Design-Ideas were used).
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This Concept entered by Diane O'Brien.