Manual Software Testing Services- Why And When?

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Manual Software Testing Services
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• Software developers intuitively know that they
  need to test their solutions but arent always
  sure about the best way to proceed, if they
  should go in for manual software testing or
  automated software testing or for scripted
  testing or exploratory testing.
• There are numerous other possibilities and
  choices to consider too. Navigating through the
  variety of choices for choosing the approach that
  best fits your situation can be really
  challenging.
• A path that many solution developers often choose
  is manual software testing, because its an easy
  to start, approachable option.

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• To ensure if manual software testing services are
  worthy for your project, it is significant to
  comprehend the goals you wish to achieve and what
  kinds of projects shall fit fine for manual
  testing.
• This also makes sure that manual software testing
  will work good for you, and that you implement
  your testing efforts suitably to meet your
  objectives.

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Why What goals should you follow?

• Manual testing, in particular, is software
  testing, so it shares some common goals with any
  testing effort along with other goals, especially
  related to manual testing.
• Some testing goals that manual testing shall
  achieve for you are
• Measuring Quality Accurately
• Provide Coverage and Traceability
• Be Reliable and Repeatable

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Measuring Quality Accurately

• This is the number one job for any testing
  effort. If the results dont tell you if your
  solution is correct or not, then it is difficult
  to say that you have received value from your
  testing.
• The key point that is often missed knows what
  determines correct behavior, to begin with. There
  are different options to determine the correct
  system behavior, such as training materials,
  formal requirement specifications, user manuals
  and other forms of documentation.
• More important than which ones to use is to
  choose the most detailed and functional
  description available, and use them steadily to
  decide what tests you should run and in what way
  to determine if they pass.

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Provide Coverage and Traceability

• You would want to connect your tests back to the
  source used to identify them. This way, you can
  tell when you have adequate tests to check the
  entire solution completely or make an intentional
  decision to leave the less-important areas
  without tests.
• With this connection, back to the functional
  documentation in place, you can also govern what
  amount of the system you have tested by
  implementing a certain set of tests. Besides,
  when you run a test that fails and create a
  defect to track errors, you will want to connect
  the defect to the test that created it.
• This way, you can tell which tests are required
  to be repeated to validate the fix for the defect
  and identify the possibly unstable areas of the
  system which may need further testing by
  detecting the functional portions of the system
  that tend to have high numbers of defects.

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Be Reliable and Repeatable

• You will likely need to implement your manual
  tests more than once, either after the defects
  have been identified (and corrected) or for
  future releases of the solution.
• It is important to be able to execute the test in
  the same way every time to ensure a consistent
  measurement of the solution quality.
• Else, variations in how a test is performed could
  lead you to conclude that a defect has been
  corrected when it hasnt, or that the
  functionality was broken by a recent change when
  it wasnt.

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• The key to making your testing reliable and
  repeatable is to document the written test cases
  with a formal structure for the main body of the
  tests.
• By writing down the tests in detail, you will be
  able to ensure that even when the tests are run
  repeatedly by different testers (and at different
  times), you will get consistent results that
  support apples-to-apples evaluation of the
  quality of the solution.
• An additional key for repeated testing is to
  include steps that reproduce the defects that you
  created while testing. When re-executing the
  test, it also allows the tester to reliably
  validate that the defect has been fixed.

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Some more specific goals of manual testing to
bear in mind are

• Try Unexpected Scenarios
• Gauge User Experience

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Try Unexpected Scenarios

• Though automated testing can hasten the use of
  detailed formal test cases, there also lies value
  in attempting the unplanned test scenarios to see
  how the solution responds to the unforeseen user
  inputs or actions.
• This off the map kind of testing is known as
  exploratory testing, and human manual testers
  particularly are good at it. Humans have an
  inimitable ability to observe how a test shall
  proceed, noting if something doesnt feel right
  and asking What would happen if I tried doing
  this?
• This can be a significant enhancement, not a
  replacement for the documented test cases
  identified previously.

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Gauge User Experience

• Automation testing has numerous benefits but has
  a unique strength of assessing the user
  experience of using a software solution.
• Since the user experience is defined as an easy
  and intuitive software solution for a human to
  use, a human tester will certainly be much better
  at assessing this than an automated test script.
• Automated test scripts would not be able to tell
  you if a given process doesnt flow well, or
  isnt freely understood by a user, or is visually
  unpleasant. For solutions where user experience
  is an important component, BugRaptors provides
  matchless manual software testing services with
  abilities to verify that the user experience is
  on board.

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When and What Projects are apt for Manual
Testing?

• There are a number of factors that a team thinks
  through when choosing the best testing
  approaches. While no approach works sufficiently
  in all circumstances and often has tradeoffs in
  situations, there are vibrant markers that
  indicate that a project can be a good fit for
  manual tests.

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Below are some to use in evaluating your
project

• Is the solution new and experiencing significant
  change in user interface and functionality?
• Is user experience an important concern?
• Is the solution occasionally updated?
• Is the solution one of the less critical
  applications?
• Is the functional path of the system highly
  variable?
• If the answer to any of these questions is yes,
  then manual testing is definitely going be a good
  fit for your project!

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