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Although many testing frameworks and services support all programming languages, manual testing remains essential. It’s widely accepted that no automated testing can succeed without carefully planned and executed manual testing procedures. Sometimes, automation alone can’t fully capture the performance of new features. Manual testers can adapt on the fly, improvising to create complex test scenarios that automated scripts might never cover.
Software testing is a detailed and methodical process. The earlier testing begins, the more time there is to identify issues and prevent a backlog of bugs. Here are five key reasons from Balancedrock’s QA team explaining when manual testing is crucial:
Once the core business or functional requirements are drafted, our QA experts perform static testing—a technique to detect mistakes, defects, inconsistencies, or illogical statements in requirements before any coding begins.
After completing the functionality, manual testing is performed first to verify that all requirements are met, the feature behaves as expected, and it fulfills the customer’s needs.
When customers report bugs, manual testing helps quickly reproduce the issues and create detailed bug reports with all necessary information for resolution.
After functional manual testing concludes, the QA team prepares regression test suites and enhances existing test cases. Only after this phase is complete does test automation begin.
Once requirements are finalized, our QA team designs manual test scripts and test cases using effective test-design techniques like specification-based and black-box testing, carefully planning each testing phase.
To achieve optimal results in manual testing, we follow a structured five-step process for every project:
Define what will be tested and set testing objectives.
Identify detailed test conditions and organize them into test cases.
Run test cases, record outcomes, and retest any issues found.
Verify whether requirements have been fulfilled and prepare a comprehensive test report.
Ensure all reports are completed, problems are resolved or documented for future phases, and defects deferred are tracked.