What is the Difference Between Manual and Automated Testing?
Manual testing is completed by our employees as the name suggests. With automated testing, test cases may be executed or exploratory techniques used with the assistance of tools, scripts and software. Manual testing requires creativity, perseverance, pattern perception, and exploration.
Iterators performs manual testing with several different approaches, depending on your needs. We can execute test cases and are also proficient at structured exploratory testing techniques. Exploratory testing allows us to maximize the use of our creativity to delve into the areas perceived to have the greatest risk, or involve newly developed features.
Automated testing is well-suited for our employees with STEM backgrounds who can create well-structured programs to perform robust tests that continue to work as new features are added. We use such testing tools as Selenium, Appium, Applitools, and TestComplete. We can also use our skills with additional tools that you may have in-house.
We use the MoSCoW approach to automation in which we work together to identify what Must be, Should be, Could be and Will be automated. This results in overall savings for regression tests by automating the relevant parts and leaving specific areas for manual regression tests.
Each project will be designed around a customized approach based on your needs. For example, one of our approaches is to use the Page Object methodology for Selenium tests and integrate it with Applitools for performing sophisticated visual checks of websites. This can be used to verify that Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, etc. are all providing consistent displays of your website. We will also run these tests in parallel using the cross-browser testing environment available with SmartBear.
