Manual Testing

Manual Testing is a sort of Software Testing where Testers physically/manually execute test cases without using any automation tool for executing test cases/scripts. Manual Testing is the most crude of all testing forms and helps discover bugs in the software product .

Any new application must be manually tested before its testing is being automated. Manual Testing requires more exertion yet is important to check automation possibility.

One of the Software Testing Fundamental is "100% Automation is beyond the realm of imagination".

Types of Manual Testing

1. Black Box Testing
2. White Box Testing
3. Unit Testing
4. System Testing
5. Integration Testing
6. Acceptance Testing

Step by step instructions to perform Manual Testing

• Analyse, Study and comprehend the  software product documentation/guidelines. Likewise, study the Application Under Test (AUT) if accessible. 
• Write Test cases that describes all the requirements referenced in the documentation. 
• Review the test cases with Team Lead, Client (as appropriate) 
• Execute the test cases on the AUT 
• Report bugs. 
• When bugs are fixed, again execute the test cases to confirm they pass.