manual-testing

How to get the most out of being a manual tester

As a student, I have just got my first co-op job as a manual tester. I know it is as intellectual and demanding a job as a coder, but I cannot help thinking the other way around. I love being a coder but it is my first job. So I am asking you for any advice on how I can get the most out of the manual black-box testing job, i.e how can I ...

How do you organise/layout your test scripts

I'm interested in how others organise their test scripts or have seen good test scripts organised anywhere they#'ve worked. Also, what level of detail is in those test scripts. This specifically relates to test scripts created for manual testing as opposed to those created for any automated test purposes. The problem as I see it is this...

Looking for manual test script examples for batch testing

I have been asked to write manual test scripts that address several batch processes. I am having a difficult time sorting out how to write them. Does anyone know of any? Or have any? ...

what are the different testings like DST, Wanem......?

Hi, can anybody explain the what are the different testings like DST,Wanem. ...

Tools to manage manual testing results - possibly integrated with trac?

At work we currently use Trac to manage our test cases. However, we have quite a few TCs that are listed on test plan wiki pages instead of tickets. My manager has recently become interested in better documenting the results of manual testing. While this is a noble goal, and several of the people on the QA team are quite gung-ho about t...

Manual Test Script Templates

Can anyone post good test script templates(MSExcel)? -- For Software Testing Project thanks ...

How can I decide what to test manually, and what to trust to automated tests?

We have a ton of developers and only a few QA folks. The developers have been getting more involved in qa throughout the development process by writing automated tests, but our QA practices are mostly manual. What I'd love is if our development practices were BDD and TDD and we grew a robust test suite. The question is: While building s...

When should automation begin?

I want to start implementing automation. I just don't know if this would be a good use of resource. The application is growing at an exponential rate but i don't know at what point does automation benefits testing. Can you give me reasons when you would automate even though you have manual testers? ...

Manual testing Vs Automated testing

Respected all, As many know testing can be mainly classified into manual and automated testing. With regard to this certain questions come to mind. Hope you can help... They include: What is the basic difference between the two types of testing? What are the elements of challenges involved in both manual and automated testing? What ...

Language to learn to move out of manual testing towards automated/programming

I have been working as a manual tester and documentation (Test plans etc.) personnel in a company's software/IT division. I do not have a big programming background but I want learn programming language(s) and tool(s). Hence, I am looking for automated testing tools and programming language(s) to learn which also give me industrial advan...

How to effectively manage manual tests in project?

In our team we faced problem of manual tests management. We have a suite of unit tests that keeps the project stable but we also ocasionally test our aplication manually based on some scenarios (to check if everything is OK on the highest level). The question is: how to effectivelly manage manual tests scenarios? They can change from ti...