From the course: Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
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Manual testing
From the course: Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
Manual testing
- Manual testing follows the steps as a user performing workflows in the application. The goal is to uncover any issues in the functionality and usability. Before performing manual testing know what scenarios you want to cover. You will have to understand your customers and identify both their typical and nontypical use cases. Testing at this level is done in the test phase Manual testing is a type of black box testing. Let's look at an example for an airline site where customers search and buy flights or check their flight status. I will focus specifically on the feature for searching for flights. First, I'll take some time to brainstorm scenarios that an user can perform while searching for flights. All the scenarios I brainstorm will be added to a test plan for this feature. I'll think about the Happy Path Scenarios which are scenarios that have successful results. This includes searching for valid one-way flights…
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