In today’s world of lightning-quick delivery and shrinking margins for error, Automated testing is all the rage. However, Manual testing remains an important part of the testing landscape. The most important testing in a project/company must be done first by the most senior manual resources, as this is where your unique skill set is most valuable. We can never automate every test, nor does it make sense to! There are some tests where you want the experts using the software as a human would, plain and simple.

Testers think differently, in a good way, and often find issues that were never considered (and, frankly, that’s what we’re paid for!). The perfect marriage for automated and manual testing is where one complements the other; not where one occurs separately from the other.. You have manual testers performing exploratory testing and helping to define what is automated, and more importantly, what the automated tests actually should test!