Manual vs. Automated Testing:

the Chicken and Egg Question Answered!

Marina Kudryavtseva

EXTENT October 2011

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Preconceptions Advantages

Automated Testing Manual Testing Within a short period of time, you can cover all the major test cases.

Using tools, you can check all kind of cases like performance and load of the software.

It is the best choice for regression, functional, performance, load testing.

This testing can be executed on different operating platforms within the same allocated period of time

Within a short period of time, you can obtain test results of many test cases.

It is used in both big and small projects

The test cases can be added or removed according to the direction of the project.

The more time tester spends testing a module the grater the odds to find real user bugs

Tester can execute random/sapient testing.

Disadvantages

The tester can launch a set of tests multiple times.

In certain cases, automated tests do not allow finding the root cause of defects.

Real performance and load numbers cannot be determined for a huge number of clients.

Manual testing is time consuming.

Each time there is a new build, the tester must return all required tests – which after a while would become very mundane and tiresome.

Testing of complex GUI

From manual to automated and vice versa

Testing & Checking

The Context-driven school was founded by CemKaner,

BrianMarick, JamesBach, and BretPettichord.

The school was founded on November 21, 1999.

Checking is something that we do with the motivation of

confirming existing beliefs.

Testing is something that we do with the motivation of finding

new information.

Summary

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Summary

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