Kanoah Tests is a test management tool that integrates seamlessly with JIRA. It allows coordinating all test management activities like planning, authoring, execution, and reporting from within JIRA. Users praise Kanoah Tests for its simple and elegant solution compared to other plugins, and for the responsive customer service. The tool provides features like test case authoring at the story level, test planning and execution, test importing, and a REST API for test automation. It offers benefits like centralized test management, end-to-end traceability, and real-time insights into testing progress through built-in reports.
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Presented by,
Ms. Anjali K G
Quality Assurance Engineer, Livares Technologies
Manual Testing: Process of testing an application
manually for defects. It requires a tester to play the role
of an end user
Automation Testing: It is technique by using special
software to control the execution of tests and the
comparison of actual results with predicted results
Testing tools Ex: QTP, Winrunner, Selenium etc
This is a presentation given at the Hangzhou Scrum Forum 2009, sponsored by Perficient, China. The topic is how to incorporate automated functional testing into an agile project, and also some best practices, tips, and warnings.
www.perficient.com
Test Automation
Test automation is the use of test automation software like Selenium or self-developed testware to execute test cases.
Test automation is mostly used to automate repetitive testing tasks in a formalized way. It is also used to execute tests that would be difficult to perform manually like performance testing.
There are many advantages of test automation that are mostly related to the repeatability of the tests and the speed of test execution. There are a lot of commercial and open source tools available which can be grouped into two main categories; Code-Driven and Graphical User Interface Testing. Thus the key success factor in test automation is selecting the right tool and have a specialized test automation team.
It is to use test automation tools by considering ROI (return on investment). Otherwise it is quite easy to waste big amount of energy, commitment and definitely money.
With more than 500 clients, Keytorc is the leading software testing company in EMEA region that have competencies of automating any kind of software in diverse industries.
For more information about test automation tools and Keytorc’s test automation service you can contact with our performance test engineers: www.keytorc.com or blogs.keytorc.com
Test Otomasyonu:
Test otomasyonu özellikle tekrarlayan ve manuel olarak yapılması zor olan testlerin Selenium gibi test otomasyon araçları kullanılarak ya da özel olarak geliştirilen test otomasyon scriptleri ile yapılmasıdır. Bu bakımdan:
- Regresyon testleri
- Performans testleri
- Yük ve Stres testleri
- Test yönetimi
test otomasyonuna en uygun test tipleri ve aktiviteleridir.
Test otomasyonunun en büyük faydaları:
- testlerin hıznının artırılması
- testlerin kapsamının artırılması
- testlerin doğruluğunun artırılması
- testlerin raporlama kalitesinin artırılmasıdır.
Test otomasyonu doğru araç seçimi yapılmaması, ya da test otomasyonunu bilen uzman bir ekip tarafından yapılmaması durumunda faydadan çok zarar getirmektedir.
EMEA bölgesindeki lider yazılım test firması olan Keytorc’un test otomasyon ekibiyle iletişime geçmek için: www.keytorc.com ya da blogs.keytorc.com
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Presented by,
Ms. Anjali K G
Quality Assurance Engineer, Livares Technologies
Manual Testing: Process of testing an application
manually for defects. It requires a tester to play the role
of an end user
Automation Testing: It is technique by using special
software to control the execution of tests and the
comparison of actual results with predicted results
Testing tools Ex: QTP, Winrunner, Selenium etc
This is a presentation given at the Hangzhou Scrum Forum 2009, sponsored by Perficient, China. The topic is how to incorporate automated functional testing into an agile project, and also some best practices, tips, and warnings.
www.perficient.com
Test Automation
Test automation is the use of test automation software like Selenium or self-developed testware to execute test cases.
Test automation is mostly used to automate repetitive testing tasks in a formalized way. It is also used to execute tests that would be difficult to perform manually like performance testing.
There are many advantages of test automation that are mostly related to the repeatability of the tests and the speed of test execution. There are a lot of commercial and open source tools available which can be grouped into two main categories; Code-Driven and Graphical User Interface Testing. Thus the key success factor in test automation is selecting the right tool and have a specialized test automation team.
It is to use test automation tools by considering ROI (return on investment). Otherwise it is quite easy to waste big amount of energy, commitment and definitely money.
With more than 500 clients, Keytorc is the leading software testing company in EMEA region that have competencies of automating any kind of software in diverse industries.
For more information about test automation tools and Keytorc’s test automation service you can contact with our performance test engineers: www.keytorc.com or blogs.keytorc.com
Test Otomasyonu:
Test otomasyonu özellikle tekrarlayan ve manuel olarak yapılması zor olan testlerin Selenium gibi test otomasyon araçları kullanılarak ya da özel olarak geliştirilen test otomasyon scriptleri ile yapılmasıdır. Bu bakımdan:
- Regresyon testleri
- Performans testleri
- Yük ve Stres testleri
- Test yönetimi
test otomasyonuna en uygun test tipleri ve aktiviteleridir.
Test otomasyonunun en büyük faydaları:
- testlerin hıznının artırılması
- testlerin kapsamının artırılması
- testlerin doğruluğunun artırılması
- testlerin raporlama kalitesinin artırılmasıdır.
Test otomasyonu doğru araç seçimi yapılmaması, ya da test otomasyonunu bilen uzman bir ekip tarafından yapılmaması durumunda faydadan çok zarar getirmektedir.
EMEA bölgesindeki lider yazılım test firması olan Keytorc’un test otomasyon ekibiyle iletişime geçmek için: www.keytorc.com ya da blogs.keytorc.com
Test Automation Best Practices (with SOA test approach)Leonard Fingerman
Today we hear a lot of buzz about the latest & greatest test automation tools like Selenium, Rational Functional Tester or HP LoadRunner but to make your test automation effort successful it might take more than just having the right tool. This presentation will try to uncover major pitfalls typically involved with test automation efforts. It will provide guidance on successful strategy as well as differences among third-generation frameworks like keyword-driven, data-driven and hybrid. It will also cover various aspects of SOA test automation
A test automation framework defines an organization's way of doing things. It is a set of assumptions, concepts and tools that provide support for automated software testing.
This is my complete introductory course for Software Test Automation.If you need full training that includes different automation tools (Selenium, J-Meter, Burp, SOAP UI etc), feel free to contact me by email (amraldo@hotmail.com) or by mobile (+201223600207).
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Also to assess the feature of A software item. Testing assesses the quality of the product. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words software testing is a verification and validation process.
Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects).
Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program/application/product:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• works as expected,
• can be implemented with the same characteristics,
• and satisfies the needs of stakeholders.
Software Development Process Cycle:-
PLAN (P): Device a plan. Define your objective and determine the strategy and supporting methods required to achieve that objective.
DO (D): Execute the plan. Create the conditions and perform the necessary training to execute the plan.
CHECK (C): Check the results. Check to determine whether work is progressing according to the plan and whether the results are obtained.
ACTION (A): Take the necessary and appropriate action if checkup reveals that the work is not being performed according to plan or not as anticipated.
Join Sauce Labs’ Automation Specialist and Selenium project contributor, Leo Laskin, as he discusses the value of open source in testing. He will also share his personal experience in moving from manual to automated testing, the lessons he has learned, and the steps he took to build a powerful, international test coding army.
View the recording at https://saucelabs.com/resources/webinars/automation-best-practices
Using Selenium for Automated testing - basic level: short introduction into the selectors and basic methods used in writing a simple script with Selenium Webdriver.
A brief introduction to test automation covering different automation approaches, when to automate and by whom, commercial vs. open source tools, testability, and so on.
Test Automation Best Practices (with SOA test approach)Leonard Fingerman
Today we hear a lot of buzz about the latest & greatest test automation tools like Selenium, Rational Functional Tester or HP LoadRunner but to make your test automation effort successful it might take more than just having the right tool. This presentation will try to uncover major pitfalls typically involved with test automation efforts. It will provide guidance on successful strategy as well as differences among third-generation frameworks like keyword-driven, data-driven and hybrid. It will also cover various aspects of SOA test automation
A test automation framework defines an organization's way of doing things. It is a set of assumptions, concepts and tools that provide support for automated software testing.
This is my complete introductory course for Software Test Automation.If you need full training that includes different automation tools (Selenium, J-Meter, Burp, SOAP UI etc), feel free to contact me by email (amraldo@hotmail.com) or by mobile (+201223600207).
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Also to assess the feature of A software item. Testing assesses the quality of the product. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words software testing is a verification and validation process.
Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects).
Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program/application/product:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• works as expected,
• can be implemented with the same characteristics,
• and satisfies the needs of stakeholders.
Software Development Process Cycle:-
PLAN (P): Device a plan. Define your objective and determine the strategy and supporting methods required to achieve that objective.
DO (D): Execute the plan. Create the conditions and perform the necessary training to execute the plan.
CHECK (C): Check the results. Check to determine whether work is progressing according to the plan and whether the results are obtained.
ACTION (A): Take the necessary and appropriate action if checkup reveals that the work is not being performed according to plan or not as anticipated.
Join Sauce Labs’ Automation Specialist and Selenium project contributor, Leo Laskin, as he discusses the value of open source in testing. He will also share his personal experience in moving from manual to automated testing, the lessons he has learned, and the steps he took to build a powerful, international test coding army.
View the recording at https://saucelabs.com/resources/webinars/automation-best-practices
Using Selenium for Automated testing - basic level: short introduction into the selectors and basic methods used in writing a simple script with Selenium Webdriver.
A brief introduction to test automation covering different automation approaches, when to automate and by whom, commercial vs. open source tools, testability, and so on.
The advantages and disadvantages of manual testing and automated testing are a topic of debate in the software development industry. Is one better than the other? Or is a combination of both automated testing and manual testing beneficial?
This ppt is done by my dear classmate Sap, almost each ppt I have uploaded is copied from net and other sources.I hope this will b a little useful for students..
Orientation Program on Automated Software testing Powered by Infaum Education...Anju ML
We are providing free Orientation program on Automated Software Testing with HP tools and placement assistance.Its a 3 hour program with Free Certification.
An eye with a sight can view the world, but an eye with a vision can transform it!
Truly said, good ideas might yield success but great ones earn prestige too. In the corporate world, this journey of molding an idea from being different to distinct involves understanding of the market trends, competing with already established brands and above all, hitting the correct audiences. Majority of software products have world-wide acceptance and are huge hits but what makes some of them stand out is their peculiarity of serving specially able people, individuals who lack competent physical or mental faculties.
In conjunction with delivering a product that caters to the need of specially able people, effective testing of the software is required to make sure all accessibility guidelines are implemented while product development and that the product complies to all accessibility standards facilitating a smooth user experience, both for individuals with abilities and disabilities.
Keeping under consideration the need of continuous accessibility testing, cost involved in setting up the testing conditions, effort in executing relevant scenarios and significance of complying to government accessibility standards, the paper proposes a cost-effective solution that takes accessibility testing to next level where our existing functional automation shell can leverage to embed accessibility testing as well, leading to faster, comprehensive, authentic and integrated results. Hence the title, “An Automated itinerary to achieve accessibility”
This presentation is for people who are looking for overview of what test automation is. It explains the automated testing process with a real world example.
Provides overview of Software Functional Test Automation, What tool you should use? What are the benefits? How to select tool that best fit you?
Compiled after going through 50 plus slides from internet
A Comparative Guide to Automation and Manual Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Consumers want their applications to work perfectly each time. If your app is rife with performance issues, bugs, and glitches, it can lose its user base in no time due to its flawed quality. As a result, testing your software product is imperative to ensure project teams check, verify, and validate the functionality of the developed software and deliver optimal user experiences.
Why and When to Use Automation in Software TestingV2Soft
Automation in software testing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ability to reduce costs, improve accuracy and efficiency, and allow for faster delivery of products. Automated testing can help developers identify bugs early in the development cycle, leading to fewer errors and better-quality software. Automation also reduces the need for manual testing, freeing up resources that can be used elsewhere. By automating specific tasks, testers can focus on more complex tasks that require human judgement and experience. Ultimately, automation helps reduce time-to-market while improving the quality of the product.
In computer programming and software testing, smoke testing (also confidence testing or sanity testing) is preliminary testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to (for example) reject a prospective software release.
Non-functional testing is the testing of a software application or system for its non-functional requirements: the way a system operates, rather than specific behaviours of that system.
The Continuing Relevance of Manual Testing.pdfMindfire LLC
Automation is most advantageous for regular and repeated testing, which may be very time-consuming and tiresome when done manually. However, automation cannot match a human’s intuitiveness, broad knowledge, and iterative assessment skills.
There is no doubt about the importance of automated frameworks in the Agile environment and as part of the day-to-day testing process. These are some insights to guide any automation project.
Test case prioritization techniques schedule test cases for execution in an order that attempts to increase their effectiveness in meeting some performance goal. Various goals are possible; one involves rate of fault detection | a measure of how quickly faults are detected within the testing process. An improved rate of fault detection during testing can provide faster feedback on the system under test, and let software engineers begin correcting faults earlier than might otherwise be possible.
Today, top companies leverage automated testing to increase product longevity, reduce costly and repetitive build-out, and improve iteration quality. This whitepaper will provide a brief introduction to automated testing. It will also address the benefits and limitations of automated testing and give an in-depth example of consumer-driven contract testing.
SQA Solution’s software test automation services combines the speed of software test automation with low cost. We have automated testing for applications running on every major platform, using a wide range of well-known tools as well as custom-developed test automation solutions.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
2. www.kanoah.com
ABOUT US
Kanoah is an innovative company
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3. About Kanoah Tests
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9. Introduction
Manual testing and automated testing cover two vast areas. Within each
category, specific testing methods are available, such as black box testing,
white box testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing,
and load testing.
Some of these methods are better suited to manual testing, and some are
best performed through automation.
What you automate depends on the tools you use.
10. When Should I Use Manual Testing?
Exploratory Testing: This type of testing requires the tester’s knowledge,
experience, analytical/logical skills, creativity, and intuition. The test is
characterized here by poorly written specification documentation, and/or a
short time for execution. We need the human skills to execute the testing
process in this scenario.
Usability Testing: This is an area in which you need to measure how user-
friendly, efficient, or convenient the software or product is for the end users.
Here, human observation is the most important factor, so a manual
approach is preferable.
Ad-hoc Testing: In this scenario, there is no specific approach. It is a totally
unplanned method of testing where the understanding and insight of the
tester is the only important factor.
11. When Should I Use Automated testing?
Regression Testing: Here, automated testing is suitable because of frequent
code changes and the ability to run the regressions in a timely manner.
Load Testing: Automated testing is also the best way to complete the
testing efficiently when it comes to load testing.
Repeated Execution: Testing which requires the repeated execution of a task
is best automated.
Performance Testing: Similarly, testing which requires the simulation of
thousands of concurrent users requires automation.
12. Pros of Automated Testing
Runs tests quickly and effectively. Once you’ve automated your tests, you’re
good to go. You can reuse tests, which is good when executing regressions
on constantly changing code. You won’t have to continuously fill out the
same information or remember to run certain tests. Everything is done for
you automatically. Automated testing is executed by software tools, so it is
significantly faster than a manual approach.
Can be cost effective. While automation tools can be expensive in the
short-term, they save you money in the long-term. They not only do more
than a human can in a given amount of time, they also find defects quicker.
This allows your team to react more quickly, saving you both precious time
and money. Aids in testing a large test matrix (different languages on
different OS platforms). Automated tests can be run at the same time on
different machines, whereas the manual tests would have to be run
sequentially. If you have to run a set of tests repeatedly, automation is a
huge win for you.
13. Pros of Automated Testing
More interesting. Filling out the same forms time after time can be
frustrating, and not to mention boring. Test automation solves this problem.
The process of setting up test cases takes coding and thought.
Everyone can see results. With automated tests, people can sign into the
testing system and see the results. This allows for greater team
collaboration and a better final product.
More reliability. Automated testing is more reliable, as it is performed by
tools and/or scripts.
Programmable. You can program sophisticated tests that bring out hidden
information from the application.
Comprehensive. You can build a suite of tests that covers every feature in
your application.
14. Cons of Automated Testing
Tools can be expensive. The automation tools can be an expensive
purchase. As a result, it is important to only use the ones that will give you
full, or as close to full coverage, as you can find.
Tools still take time. And of course, proficiency is required to write the
automation test scripts. While the automation process cuts down on the
time it takes to test everything by hand, automated testing is still a time
intensive process. A considerable amount of time goes into developing the
automated tests and letting them run.
Tools have limitations. While automated tests will detect most bugs in your
system, there are limitations. For example, the automated tools can’t test for
visual considerations like image color or font size. Changes in these can
only be detected by manual testing, which means that not all testing can be
done with automatic tools. Automated testing does not entail human
observation and cannot guarantee user-friendliness or positive customer
experience.
15. Cons of Automated Testing
Debugging the test script is major issue. If any error is present in the test
script, sometimes it may lead to deadly consequences.
Test maintenance is costly in case of playback methods. Even though a
minor change occurs in the GUI, the test script has to be re-recorded or
replaced by a new test script.
Maintenance of test data files is difficult, if the test script tests more screens.
16. Pros of Manual Testing
Short-term cost is lower. Buying software automation tools is expensive.
With manual testing, you won’t have to put the same up-front costs into the
software. Also, if the test case only runs twice a coding milestone, it most
likely should be a manual test. Less cost than automating it.
More likely to find real user issues. Manual testing allows the developing
program to be used as it would be upon launch. Any bugs that may pop up
when a user handles the program in a certain way are more likely to be
caught with manual testing. It allows the tester to perform more random
testing. The experience says more bugs are found via random testing than
via automation. And, the more time a tester spends playing with the feature,
the greater the odds of finding real user bugs. Manual testing allows for
human observation, which may be more useful if the goal is user-
friendliness or improved customer experience. This is also why it is very
helpful in UI testing.
Manual testing is flexible. When one of those brilliant thoughts comes to
you, something that could change the course of the project, you want to be
able to work on it immediately. With automated testing you have to set up
test cases, program it into the automated tool, and then run the tests. With
manual testing, you can just quickly test and see the results.
17. Cons of Manual Testing
Certain tasks are difficult to do manually. There are certain actions that are
difficult to do manually. Automated testing, once set up, is much better
equipped to find errors for this kind of testing.
Not stimulating. Manual testing can be repetitive and boring – no one wants
to keep filling out the same forms time after time. As a result, many testers
have a hard time staying engaged in this process, and errors are more
likely to occur.
Can’t reuse manual tests. With manual testing, if there is any change to the
software, you have to run the tests again by hand. This is valuable time lost.
Manual testing executed in regression testing might not catch defects for
frequently changing requirements.
Running tests manually can be very time consuming. testing on different
machines with different OS platform combinations cannot be done
concurrently. Executing each task requires different testers. Executing the
Build Verification Testing (BVT) is very mundane and tiresome in manual
testing.
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