MANUAL TESTING ADVANTAGES & DRAWBACKS

Ways of Testing:

                There are two ways of Testing

                                1. Manual Testing

                                2. Automation Testing

1. Manual Testing:

                It is a way of testing in which one will perform all the phases of software testing life cycle like Test planning, Test development, Test execution, Result analysis, Bug tracking, and Reporting are accomplished manually, successfully with human efforts

What are the advantages of manual testing?

v Manual testing will be useful when the test case only needs to

        run once or twice

v It is very much helpful in testing.

v It will take less cost than automation.

v Manual Testing is eye ball testing

v It is very much helpful in testing.

v Easy to learn for new people who are entered into testing.

v Manual QA testing can be used in both small and big projects.

v Manual is more reliable then automated (in many cases

       Automated not cover all cases)

v Manual testing doesn’t require any specific knowledge like any scripting language, technical knowledge but Automation required

v Manual Testing which is performed by humans can find many such defects which can never be found using Automation tools.

Drawbacks of Manual Testing:

•  Time consuming (consumption)

• No efficiency and effectiveness

•  It is a slowest process

•  We can’t repeat the task again and again

• It is not consist process

•  It will be very difficult to manage

•  No accuracy or less accuracy

•  Tiredness

• Simultaneous actions are not possible