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Manual testing is the process of manually testing software to ensure the correctness, completeness and quality of developed software.

Manual testing is the process of manually testing software to ensure the correctness, completeness and quality of developed software. It requires a tester to play the role of an end user, and use most of all features of the application to ensure correct behavior.

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What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?

What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing? When do will perform smoke testing and when do will perform sanity testing?
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Manual testing Vs Automated testing

Testing can be mainly classified into manual and automated testing. With regard to this certain questions come to mind. They include: What is the basic difference between the two types of testing? What are the elements of challenges involved in…
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Let's Encrypt: How to manually test the certbot renewal process?

I have a working setup where Let's Encrypt certificates are generated with certbot. I wonder how you effectively test whether the renewal will work in production. The certificates last for 90 days. Is there a way to reduce the lifespan to, for…
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Language to learn to move out of manual testing towards automated/programming

I have been working as a manual tester and documentation (Test plans etc.) personnel in a company's software/IT division. I do not have a big programming background but I want learn programming language(s) and tool(s). Hence, I am looking for…
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How do you organise/layout your test scripts

I'm interested in how others organise their test scripts or have seen good test scripts organised anywhere they've worked. Also, what level of detail is in those test scripts. This specifically relates to test scripts created for manual testing as…
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BDD with Manual Tests?

We are switching from a classic 'Waterfall' model into more Agile-orient philosophy. We decided to give BDD a try (Cucumber), but we have some issues with migrating some of our 'old' methodologies. The biggest question mark is how manual tests…
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Google BigQuery local emulation

Is there any local server implementation for google BigQuery like localstack for AWS. There is a reference to local server implementation for app engine with dev_appserver.py. I could run this with a dummy app.yaml. I can not access interactive…
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Are there tools that log user actions to help reproduce bugs?

As a test engineer, I often engage in exploratory testing. When I encounter a bug, it is not always immediately clear which steps led to the problem. So, obviously, I have to find the required steps to reproduce the problem. Depending on the…
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Difference System Acceptance Test and User Acceptance Test

I've read the terms System Acceptance Test and User Acceptance Test in a document. But I can't really figure out what's the difference between these two. Can anybody explain the difference?
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Android app code coverage for manual testing

I am looking for a way to get EMMA code coverage with manual test. I mean, i don't want to write any unit test cases using the android test framework, instead i am looking for a way to instrument my android app source code and test manually and at…
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How to reproduce "Multiuser Concurrency Problems" in testing environment with limited resources

Scenario: In case of simultaneous usage by multiple users the cookie based login sometimes gets overridden causing one user to see other users information. Session is completely cookie based and each request to server is authenticated with database…
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how to create test data or data set in software testing life cycle?

How do tester create test data? In how many type of testing or methods of testing tester need to have or needs to create test data? where to find test data? is there any ready data set or particular testing type? how many types of data sets tester…
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Tools to manage manual testing results - possibly integrated with trac?

At work we currently use Trac to manage our test cases. However, we have quite a few TCs that are listed on test plan wiki pages instead of tickets. My manager has recently become interested in better documenting the results of manual testing. While…
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How to point frontend towards local backend server for local testing

I'm developing a full-stack web app, which has both a frontend and a backend. In production, my frontend will be hosted at https://frontend.com, and my backend at https://backend.com. It seems reasonable to hardcode the address https://backend.com…
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Console not logging in web inspector

I am testing on Safari on an iPhone 5c and I use the Web Inspector to view the console logs. It hasn't been showing any logs as of lately, knowing that other iOS devices are working with the same desktop. Usually when I hook up the device and open…
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