Manual Testing
Testing performed by a person interacting with the application directly, without automation scripts.
What is Manual Testing?
What is Manual Testing?
Manual testing is a human exercising the application by hand—clicking through flows, observing behavior, and using judgment to spot problems. It shines for exploratory work, usability assessment, and nuanced visual review, where human perception outperforms scripts. Its limits are speed and repeatability: manually re-running the same regression checks every release is slow and error-prone. The best strategy pairs the two, automating repetitive, well-understood flows so people are freed to do the exploratory and edge-case testing only humans can.