manual testing

[KBagade]

Hi, I am an electrical engineer and having 2 years of experience in same field. I wants to change my professional background to Software Testing. As I am very new to this field. Please guide me how can I start my career in this field. Is their any online sites as i am start learning from home?
Thanks inadvance.

[zephyr]

Yeah, you can do web application using manual testing, Now days there are many tools available to test; I would say use this test management tool, Zephyr; It has extensive testing features.

[Rahul009]

please tell me how do start testing web application from the scratch ........... Please its urgent

[saimadhu]

Depending upon the product and its stability, we will be doing manual, automated testing.

1. Go for Manual Testing in any of the following cases:
a) Unstable Software i.e. frequent changes will be happening.
b) To explore New Software.
c) No Automation suite available.
d) Adhoc testing (unplanned test cases).
e) If product is not critical & only one time testing & the effort required is less than the effort required for automation.

2. Go for Automation in any of the following cases:
a) Quiet Stable Software i.e. atleast most part of the functionality is stable and the changes are rare.
b) Any application with a High degree of risk associated with the failure is a good candidate for test automation. Example Application: Aircraft, patient monitor etc
c) Testing needs to be repeated across builds, multiple platforms etc.

3. Advantages of Automation:
a) Accelerate releases (reduces regression effort)
b) With repeatable tests ensure consistency across multiple supported platforms
c) Greater Application Coverage. Can test more often & more completely
d) Can generate convenient test reports for analysis

Note:
Automation of 100% manual tests may be possible. But we need to do 100% automation only if it benefits.
Some of the tests can be tested with in less time than spending lot of time for automation.

[nakumar11]

can we test web applications efficiently using manual testing

THe first best option every one will opt is manual testing. because you can't blindly believe a tool for the first time. First you to decide all the scenarios like how to test. You need to develop test cases for all such scenarios. Then only we will for automation.

[ALICIA21]

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