Advantages and Disadvantages of Manual Testing

[G C Reddy Software Testing]

Advantages and Disadvantages of Manual Testing
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I. Advantages of Manual Testing

1. No Environment Limitations
2. Programming Knowledge is not required.
3. Recommendable for Dynamically changing GUI designs.
4. Recommendable for Usability Testing.
5. Manual testing allows for human observation, which may be more useful to find potential defects.

II. Disadvantages of Manual Testing

1. Manual Testing requires more time or more resources, sometimes both Time and Resources.
2. Less Accuracy
3. Performance testing is impractical in Manual testing.
4. Comparing a large amount of data is impractical.
5. Processing change requests during software maintenance takes more time.
6. Batch Testing is possible, but for each test execution, Human user interaction is mandatory.
7. GUI Objects Size difference and Color combinations etc.. are not easy to find in Manual Testing.
8. Manual Test Case scope is very less, if it is an Automated test then the scope is more.
9. Executing the same tests, again and again, is time taking process as well as Tedious.
10. For every release you must rerun the same set of tests which can be tiresome.