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Manual Testing , Benefits & Drawbacks

Manual testing

Its a type of software testing where doing a human tester with a software application to identify bugs and defects. The tester executes test cases, which are a set of steps designed to verify the functionality and performance of the application. Manual testing can be used to test any aspect of a software application.

Benefits
1.Easy to use : it doesnt need any special tools to testing an application.just need a application and related system only to complete the testing task
2.Easy to Change : Its easily to modify and any other changes in the test case scenario.
3.Human Operated : its completely done the job through human related work.so we can easily identifies an defect .

Drawbacks
1.Time: Its take so much of time consuming with difficult software applications
2.Human Error: Manual testers are making mistakes, defectes are being missed due to some urgent timing issues
3.Cost : Manual testing is costly for some large software projects

Example

A manual tester could check a website should work each and every pages of the website are working with correct scenario whatever we need.

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