Errors caught by WBT, but not BBT and vice versa

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Hi Folks,

Can you think of one type of error that might be found using White-Box testing, and one type using Black-Box testing. i.e. an error that would be found by one and not the other.

For WBT there would null else statements, but what would you catch with BBT and not WBT???

BTW this question is just based on my own personal study - I'm not getting free marks out of this!!!!

Thanks,

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