Manual Software Testing
Manual Software Testing in its true sense is human intelligence at work. Many even within the testing arena consider this just as a labor intensive activity that could easily be automated completely. Well labor intensive is quite correct in many aspects, it is also correct that some of these tasks can be automated, but it might be very wrong to say that manual software testing can be completely replaced by QA tools and applications.
For every organization with a software development group should have come across the need for improved test coverage. The more you test the more confident you are to release a product or put a stamp of quality certification on the same. While the reality is that the testing effort often misses the last bus to get a place into the overall project budget. Even if it manages to get in, it is more than often that it is asked to step out for giving seat to a development priority.
But when unhappy customers scream back with loads of bugs in their hand you are right testing takes the blame. And many times development shops overlook testing because they feel this can be looked into at the last phase, which is way away from the absolute truth.
There are even the wiser ones who think they could buy an off the shelf tool and ‘Bingo’ you have a tested product coming out.
“Too good to be true; and not very wise for any price” You would agree
After all, why does someone underplay the importance of human intelligence in testing, it’s a simple fact that you can’t replace good testers with good tools
Bottom line, don’t ever procrastinate the manual software testing effort, if you do you bet you are on a speedy road to an imminent fiasco
“Oh! Manual testing costs the sky and is tough to manage” many people keep saying and here are a few questions to all the skeptics out there who think Manual Software testing is not the way to go. Assuming that you have had an experience of manual testing not producing expected results… please read on……
- Did you have a structured QA process to execute before you loaded your testing army?
- Did you have a different set of people do the testing or did you buy two pairs of Jeans for the development folks and asked them to find fault with what they did in the first place?
- Did you look at the option of outsourcing the work so that you can manage the result and not the activity?
Did you budget for testing and use it, or did you throw in that last left pennies to someone who sat and explored your application and came back confused? - Did you invest on tools and forget about the hands and heads that operate them?
Take my word, you might give me the best answers for all the above question, but if you have been unhappy with the result of a manual software testing effort before, I bet you should blame the execution and never the importance of the action.
One more simple truth before we close
Only real people are true to find severe bugs before other real people (your customers) find them. Tools just aid……..
Get to the market hire a tester, or hire a company that can do it for you for the price you and you friends spend on beer (assuming you all don’t bathe in beer)
Techniques | admin | May 31, 2010
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