Manual testing is here to stay!
A little helping hand for manual testers
More and more organisations are moving towards agile software delivery approaches. But agile brings with it a new set of challenges. Not least functional test automation.
In a typical QA/testing environment manual testing can account to up to 80% of all testing, indeed, in many places it accounts for 100%
There is no complete substitute for manual testing. Manual testing is crucial for the thorough testing of software applications. Although ways of automating this process have been available for over 20 years it is often not appropriate or convenient to automate.
Automation can only be justified where repeatable consistent tests can be run over a stable environment. When this isn't the case (for example during the early stages of the test cycle or when the application is complicated and the business risk is large) then testing teams almost always revert back to manual testing.
Here are some examples of when manual testing is needed:
- If your application is business critical or on heavily tested software.
- If your are new to testing.
- If you do not believe in full automation.
- Or if full automation has not been appropriate to the project.
Click on the links below to learn more about manual testing and to see for yourself how TestDrive-Assist, our unique solution specifically designed for manual testers, can cut manual testing time in half.
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TestDrive-Assist requires such minimal training and set up time, it is an ideal entry level product for those testers who may not yet need or want full automation, but want some way of capturing their work and improve their efficiency. It is the only software testing solution to monitor applications and provide screen, input, database and test status information for manual tests.
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