Manual testing is eating us,or otherwise..!!

We as a tester always relish on the new things, we always want to discover things.

If we go by definition we have different profiles in the IT sector, one of the well-known roles is of a Quality analyst. She is the person who takes care of Quality. Lets put it like this she is the guard of our software. As we have guards outside banks who take care of the money kept inside the bank. Similarly, a QA’s job is to safeguard software from different areas.

Now we are clear with the role of Functional Tester, let’s get a step closer. There are always various ways to accomplish a single task, and we always find the best and simplest way to do it. In the same manner, software testing can be done broadly in two ways, manual testing and automation testing. It’s just the perception and ways of working your present company has, also the idea you have while doing your job. As we go far, manual testing mainly focuses more on the research and less on the implementation of testing. By this I mean, you can try multiple ways to test a single function within the software, but you need time to do the job. Along with this, you need to do the same testing again when any new functionality over the present software(delta testing), as a part of regression testing. It depends how good you are doing your job, whether you are storing all executed tests or you are sharing knowledge with your fellow members so that you can add more interesting tests above the one you have covered.

Manual testing has a big downfall in IT, and there are various valid factors that I can share. Show-s-topper is the resource replacement, let say, you have one manual tester in a team, and if he falls sick or leaves the project, then the hand-over is costly also if he has missed some tests in the test cases sheet then it’s always risky. Other being it is more time consuming, requires extra efforts, needs more resources, etc. Now we are moving more towards automation which is a new and trendy one. The product owner can not risk a delivery due to the above factors mentioned above. He focusses more on GO-LIVE call, for this we need more advanced and extra efficient ways of working. Automation is a boon, but it requires more brilliancy as compared to manual testing. In this one needs to do manual testing and prior to it automates the tests by one of the tools present in the internet.

If we go more in details then boon is lying on e-commerce and m-commerce areas. And in this rapidly growing world, we get requirements changes so fast that we can not just rely on traditional ways of working. And stakeholders do not accept NO or Failures, everyone wants a fast and working model.

This is how this curve is coming everywhere, be it jobs, big companies, ways of working, etc. But my experience says manual testing can never disappear as one has to start with basic sanity, no matter he/she is manual or automation, it always goes side-by-side. I agree to some extent we are trying to lessen down the manual work but it can never vanish.

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