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Manual testing for correctness

Manual testing for correctness

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Manual testing for correctness

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- [Instructor] Manual testing for correctness. The most basic form of software testing is manual testing. A human is given instructions or test cases and goes through those steps to validate correctness. New features usually don't have test cases. A manual tester will read the requirements and specifications. Based on their knowledge of the overall product and the goals, the tester will write test cases. With the test cases, the manual tester starts validation. If the instructions are to visit a particular website, sign in as a user with a subscription, access a particular page, and look for some content on a page, then the tester does just that. The result of the test can be a pass or a fail. Of course, being a person, the tester can have additional feedback as well. They may report that the last step took a really long time or timed out, or that everything worked, but the background was the wrong color. In addition…

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