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Automated vs. manual testing

Automated vs. manual testing - WordPress Tutorial

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Automated vs. manual testing

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- [Narrator] Ensuring a stable WordPress website requires thorough testing, but how do you choose between automated and manual testing? In this video, we'll explore the pros and cons of each approach and how to integrate them into your workflow. Let's get started. Manual testing involves human testers interacting with a website to identify issues. This approach is useful for exploratory testing, finding unexpected bugs through hands-on interaction. UI and UX evaluation, assessing visual design and user experience, and small-scale testing ideal for minor updates that don't require full automation. While manual testing is effective, it can be time-consuming and prone to human error. Automated testing uses scripts and tools to run predefined tests on a WordPress site. It's ideal for regression testing, ensuring updates don't break existing functionality. Performance testing, measuring site speed and load times. And scalability, running hundreds of test cases quickly and efficiently…

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