{"id":120,"date":"2019-03-05T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2019-06-11T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:12:00","slug":"manual-testing-types-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/manual-testing-types-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Manual Testing? Types, Tools and Concept | W3Softech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3softech.com\/manual-testing-services.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Manual Testing (opens in a new tab)\">Manual Testing<\/a><\/strong> is a type of software testing usually done by testers manually to perform test cases and find out the bugs or errors in a software system. Any software application before going under <strong>automation testing<\/strong> must be tested manually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The major role of this testing is to ensure that the system is defect-free and working properly then let it go for the next step in the development life cycle. Name itself says that this testing is done by manually without using any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolsqa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"automation tools (opens in a new tab)\">automation tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Working Process of Manual Testing:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The initial step is to study and analyze completely the project give<\/li><li>To execute the test cases based upon the business requirements<\/li><li>Perform testing manually to find out any bugs or defects in the software application and fix them<\/li><li>Perform retesting by testers to find out any missing bugs in the system and fix them<\/li><li>Finally, the project will go for the further step after successful completion of testing<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Tools-Blog-W3Softech-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Manual-Testing-Types-Tools-Blog-W3Softech\" class=\"wp-image-121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Tools-Blog-W3Softech-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Tools-Blog-W3Softech-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Tools-Blog-W3Softech-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Tools-Blog-W3Softech.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advantages of Manual Testing:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>This Testing can be done through either functional or non-functional<\/li><li>Any kind of software application or system can be tested manually<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disadvantages of Manual Testing:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>It requires human intervention<\/li><li>It requires highly skilled testers and longtime process<\/li><li>Based upon the above things it costs high<\/li><li>The testing process will become repetitive so that may get boring<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Manual Testing Types:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on the system functionality and usage software testing will execute either through manually or automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/methods-of-software-testing\/\">Black Box Testing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/methods-of-software-testing\/\">White Box Testing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/levels-of-testing\/\">Unit Testing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/levels-of-testing\/\">System Testing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/levels-of-testing\/\">Integration Testing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/levels-of-testing\/\">Acceptance Testing<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Blog-W3Softech-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Manual-Testing-Types-Blog-W3Softech\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Blog-W3Softech-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Blog-W3Softech-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Blog-W3Softech-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Manual-Testing-Types-Blog-W3Softech.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Manual Testing Tools:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Appium (Mobile Testing)<\/li><li>AutoIT (Language Automation)<\/li><li>Bugzilla (Defect Tracking &amp; Collaboration)<\/li><li>FileZilla (FTP Solution)<\/li><li>Firebug \/ Firepath (Online Debugging)<\/li><li>GitHub (Project &amp; Source Code Hosting)<\/li><li>Jenkins (Continuous Testing)<\/li><li>JMeter (Load Testing)<\/li><li>Mantis (Bug-Tracking &amp; Project Management)<\/li><li>Notepad++ (Source code Editor)<\/li><li>PhantomJS (Headless Browser)<\/li><li>Postman (API Testing)<\/li><li>RazorSQL (Database Query Tool)<\/li><li>Selenium (Web Application Testing)<\/li><li>TestLink (Test Management)<\/li><li>UI Automator (Android Testing Framework) <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manual Testing is a type of software testing usually done by testers manually to perform test cases and find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[41,44,43,42,5,25,45,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3softech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}