Automated Test
Automated Test
Automated Test
Automated Testing
Objective: Students will be able to differentiate between Manual testing and automated Testing.
Summary of Task/Action:
1. The class will start with an activity to introduce the students to manual testing.
a. If each student has a laptop, the activity will be individual. Else, the activity will
group by 5.
b. Students must execute a manual testing given the test cases and website.
c. Time allotted for the activity will be 3 mins.
2. Lecture about:
a. What is Manual Testing?
3. The instructor will demo a sample automated testing tool to execute the test cases given
on the first activity.
4. Lecture about:
a. What is Automated Testing?
b. What is the difference between manual and automated testing?
c. Why use Automated testing over Manual testing?
d. Why use Manual testing over Automated testing?
5. As a conclusion, the instructor will ask a representative of each group to compare the
results of manual testing and automated testing. If the first activity was done individually,
the instructor will pick a few students to compare the result.
References:
https://www.perfecto.io/blog/automated-testing-vs-manual-testing-vs-continuous-testing
August 13, 2019
Eran Kinsbruner
Source: Manual vs. Automated Testing: The Eternal Debate is Over - QA Madness Software testing
company
Kate Punova
https://www.qamadness.com/manual-testing-vs-automated-testing/
https://www.testim.io/blog/test-automation-vs-manual-testing/
Test Automation vs Manual Testing: Picking the Right Balance
By Testim, October 29, 2019 Michiel Mulders
https://www.scnsoft.com/blog/manual-vs-automated-testing
Alexander Viktorov
Manual Testing Vs. Automated Testing Vs. Integrated Approach: The Right Way to Test Modern
Apps
When you are in IT industry, might be a graphic designer, animation or in
programming/software developers or in any other track ensuring the quality of
the product you produce is crucial.
Software testing is an integral part of the development of a successful
software project. Software testing itself consists of a huge domain in which
many variants exist. To give you an idea, some examples of test
methodologies are regression testing, smoke testing, network testing,
integration testing, and many more.
When You are doing a software testing you must have documentation or flow
on how you will execute your testing. Especially when you are doing it
manual, a test plan is necessary.
For now I have provided a test plan which you will follow, I have given a
website that you have to access and you have to execute the test cases on
the test plan manually. Follow the format.
Let me show you an example of testing using automation. In this example I used katalon studio
as my test tool,
Here I have created test steps by using record and play features, or by creating test scripts.
(insert katalon studio.)
In manual testing, a testing engineer (a human) manually executes test cases. This means the
testing engineer describes several scenarios and edge cases that they want to verify the
functioning of. Manual testing doesn’t use any tools or scripts. This means that the testing
engineer has to prepare a dataset and the scenario and trigger the right inputs or actions to test
the described scenario.
With automated testing, all of this—as the name suggests—is automated. This means using
scripts and tools that prepare data and a state, then execute the steps required to verify the
scenario in an automated way.
Both manual and automated testing have benefits and disadvantages. It’s worth knowing the
difference, and when to use one or the other for best results.
Manual testing is suited for usability testing, ad-hoc testing, and exploratory testing.
Usability testing focuses on measuring an application’s user-friendliness. Ad-hoc testing uses a
free approach in which the testing engineer tries to break components without a set scenario.
The last approach, exploratory testing, focuses on the tester’s knowledge, experience, analytical
skills, creativity, and intuition. Here, the test is characterized by poorly written specification
documentation or a short time for execution.
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Automation testing will not replace manual testing. You need both manual and automation
testing. Manual testing handles complex test cases, while automated testing handles simpler,
more repetitive tests.
So, manual testing is still important. But adding automated testing makes your manual tests
more efficient.
Notably, automated and manual testing can’t exist separately. The team of automated QA
engineers completes a test checklist following manual test cases. When QA specialists adopt
multiple benefits and take into account drawbacks of these approaches, they conduct a
complex, professional software quality assurance. Robust automation brings about efficiency in
the whole testing process, while manual testing remains less costly and more helpful checking
user interface.
There is no universal way of testing; each project requires a unique approach. Thanks to the
combination of manual and automated testing, it’s possible to detect all the possible software failures
at early stages. If you are to implement a combined QA strategy in your project, think of its budget,
deadline, and team`s skillset. Looking for a QA team to test your software, choose the one that
offers a combined strategy. In such a way, you will reap the advantages of both methods.