Why manual testing is needed?

Industries are dependent on automation of test execution. Therefore, testers also rely on efficient tools. But there may be an instance where automation will not help, which is why they also need to design test cases and execute them manually.

The psychology of a tester plays an important role in software testing.

Evolution Phases of Software testing

  1. there was no clear distinction between software development, testing, and debugging.
  2. the purpose is to show the absense of errors.
  3. Testing is to find more and more errors
  4. Impotance of Early Testing was realized
  5. Started stressing on the quality of software products.
  6. bug-prevention > bug-detection
  7. testing was established as a complete process rather than a single phase.

<aside> 💡 Testing starts as soon as we get the requirement specifications for the software. And the testing work continues throughout the SDLC, even post-implementation of the software.

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Job of a Tester?

→ they have to plan and develop the test cases manually and it requires a thorough understanding of the project being developed with its overall design.

A tester needs :