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Why Manual Testing Services Are Recommended over Automated Software Testing?

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Claire Mackerras
Why Manual Testing Services Are Recommended over Automated Software Testing?

QA designers and IT organizations are regularly asked by the clients when testing a software application – whether to select manual software testing alternatives or give an attempt to new automated systems.

Manual Testing

Manual testing is a process of testing each and every program individually and making the comparison of the outcomes with that of expectations. Manual testing is a procedure in which tester utilizes the program as a user and encounters functionality to check whether every one of the features is working appropriately or not.

The procedure of QA testing can be a tedious task as you have to choose each setting inside a product package. Take an example, you have an application and you require to test it for 170 countries.

Automated Testing

Various tools are utilized by testers in order to execute automated testing. Automated testing is a process in which the tests of a software application are pre-scripted and the software tools execute these pre-scripted tests before it is released into production. It makes use of automation tools to write and execute test cases. Therefore, no manual involvement is required while executing an automated test suite.

If the expected and actual output is same, your program is working well; this implies your project is bug free. If the output doesn’t match the expectation, you need to investigate once again and keep on running tests until results match.

[Worth Read: How To Select The Test Management Tool For Manual And Automated Testing?]

Many experts recommend manual testing services for they are less expensive and include human observations. In the meantime, others recommend the extensive use of automated testing for the purpose of regression testing. At times, Regression tests are extremely tedious and time consuming so here automated testing comes in to play a major role. Both the testing approaches have their own advantages and appropriateness. It altogether relies upon the budget, duration, and type of project.

 

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