Manual Testing Introduction

Manual Testing

• Test Complete gives you an opportunity to create and manage manual tests when testing your application. This kind of testing allows creating a collection of steps to be performed manually when the application is being tested, with a description of and detailed instructions for each step. A tester carries out these instructions manually and indicates whether a particular step was performed successfully or not. Manual testing is usually performed at the initial stage of software development, when automated tests are not effective yet due to the fact that the software and its user interface are not stable enough and may be modified a lot.

• Also, Test Complete provides an ability to perform keyword tests as manual test steps so that some keyword test operations can be automatically executed during the manual test run. This allows you to automatically perform some helper actions that are not necessary to be done manually during the manual test run. This can be helpful at the intermediate stage of software development, when some functionality of the application is quite stable and can be tested automatically (for instance, using keyword tests), while manual testing is still more applicable for other features of the application. In such situations, combining keyword tests with manual tests is quite effective and may save a lot of your time. For more information on this, see Using Keyword Tests in Manual Tests.

• When a manual test is running in Test Complete, the Step Description dialog describing the current test step is shown on the screen. This dialog holds instructions the tester should perform manually in the current step. The dialog allows the tester to stop testing or indicate whether the step was accomplished successfully or whether it failed. After the testing is finished, you can see results of each step in the log.

• Besides that, Test Complete allows managing manual tests from scripts and keyword tests. This opportunity is implemented with the help of the Manual Testing program object. Test Complete also provides a number of events which you can use to perform specific actions on each step of a manual test, on test finish and on specifying the test result (fail or success).