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Discussion on: Is Manual Testing Superior to Automated Testing?

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Joe Mainwaring

Manual testing is a bottleneck at scale:

  • It requires a human to execute, where as automated testing can be scheduled
  • You have to manually document that you executed tests and record their results
  • Manual testing can foster tribal knowledge; tribal knowledge is easily lost with turnover.
  • You can't move towards a true continuous deployment environment with manual testing, it's not practical for a human to repeat a suite of tests multiple times a day at scale.