Friday, February 5, 2016

Manual Testing vs. Automated Testing

Is there such a thing? That is the question.

James Bach believes there is no such thing as manual or automated testing. It’s all just testing. I totally agree with him. The definition of testing is to perform measures to check the quality, performance, or reliability of (something), before putting it into widespread use. What many people refer to as “test automation” is simply testing that is supported by tools which attempt to simulate user interaction with the system.

There are a lot of different testing tools. Some tools, like selenium, require a very skilled tester to write code to perform the checks. Other tools such as Testing Whiz or Advanced REST client don’t require coding knowledge. Whichever tools you use to perform testing, the end result is the same. The tests will either pass or fail. Depending on which tools are used, the tester may receive the results faster but may be expensive to implement.

Testing “manually” or with “automation” is simply just testing but the use of different tools is what makes it different. What do you think?





28 comments:

  1. Maybe not by those names. But there is automated checking vs. non-automated checking, right?

    I just tried to read James Bach's latest post on this subject and my head is spinning. I still see value in making a distinction between the two approaches to solving the testing challenge.

    "'test automation' is simply testing that is supported by tools which attempt to simulate user interaction with the system"

    That seems to me like a narrow definition of "test automation". I think some of the best automation can tell us something about the product's quality by doing things users cannot do, or would not do. Example: programmatically checking the integrity of 1 billion records is not simulating a user interaction.

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