7 responses to “What is Manual testing”

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   qa

   October 4, 2012

   very informative ………..

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   tfortesting.wordpress.com

   October 4, 2012

   very informative keep posting……………..

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   abodeqa

   October 4, 2012

   Thank you for appreciation..but this good work can’t be performed single handed.. so your feedback is needed for making this blog better

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   ralu82

   October 12, 2012

   Nice posting. But in my now 2,5 years of in practial testing, I think some points of the theoretical requirements can not all be reached every time. Let me say something about the following points you said:

   Procedure involves in manual testing

   1- Making a good test plan that includes all the overview,scope, methodologies and also the resources
   –> That depends not only on you as a tester. Normaly other stakeholders (like product owner, architects, developers,…) have to help you. But depending on the project it’s not possible (missing time, missing resources, test processs not lived, …) Maybe you as a tester can estimate all this with your experience, but what if you doing tests at first time?

   2- Writing test cases with the help of SRS and on the basis of Use-Cases
   –> year, if you’re able to find or know some…In agile projects for example you will hardly find something of specification or documentation on a paper…

   3- Review of test cases is done to make sure that all functionalities are covered and nothing is left for writing test cases
   –> see point 1, same problems in practical testing possible

   4- Execution of test case(Dynamic testing)
   –> depends on your test tools (if your testprocess allowes one!)

   5- Detecting Bugs
   –> year, that’s your job as tester!

   6- Filing bugs in Bug tracking tools like Bugzilla
   –> I think that is something, which every software-company should have. A tool where someone can add findings, bugs, problems and other people can find them and fix them!

   7- Making test report
   –> Also this depends on the used test tools and methods and the defined test process (If there is one in your company!). If you do scriped based manual testing, you may execute your testcases from your tool. If you doing exploratory testing or rapid software testing for example, you are testing without script but you note your scenarios and bugs on a document or something like that…

   8- Retrospection of the whole process.
   –> Also this is something of the testprocess. It may result in statistics like “how many bugs have been found”, “how many testcases have been executed”, “how long was the time to fix the bugs”, …That all sounds good in theorie, but I’m not a freind of statistics. Who realy cares about your found bugs, about your executed and not executed testcases? The customers? I don’t beliefe that. I think the customers will find problems and bugs, which the testers could not find…especially those test scenarios which noone had ever thought about…

   KR, Ralf

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      Dwarika

      October 14, 2012

      Its really a good explanation of these manual testing points that we normally use in Manual testing.
      This is the typical points that is the part of manual testing and testers involvement in executing test, filing bugs and also for in preparing in test report through the tool and also with their lead or manager.

      You are absolutely right that Test planning is not the task of a tester, in this normally Test manager, Test Lead and various stack-holder get involved where they try to put all kind of ingredient that should be taken in to account for giving a product with a quality.But sometime Tester also provide help in making test plan and test strategy.

      So we can say that Tester start working from very top to the bottom and he helps in making test strategy to test statistic.

      I really appreciate you effort to bring such a nice explanation to all the manual procedure that is involved in Manual testing.
      Thank to you and would be hoping more and frequent visit of yours here on my blog

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