Manual Testing

Manual software testing services help teams outsource the repetitive aspects of QA. See how 11 services compare.

Learn how to test a web application manually and prepare for a smooth transition to automated testing.

In this post, we provide an in-depth comparison of 9 Applause competitors and guidance for choosing the best fit for your team.

Understand the differences between four popular manual testing services: Rainforest QA, Applause, Testlio, & Test.io.

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is a powerful, under-appreciated platform that allows you to allocate work to humans programmatically and at scale. Businesses get access to a vast, scaleable workforce, and workers can select from a variety of tasks whenever they want to work. MTurk can get work done very quickly, with tasks performed in parallel […]

Exploratory testing is an unscripted QA testing technique used to discover unknown issues during and after the software development process. In addition to being used to discover new bugs, exploratory testing is also understood as a way to learn about the application and design functional and regression test cases to be executed in the future.

Crowdsourced testing is an emergent method of QA testing which leverages a dispersed, temporary workforce to test software applications quickly and effectively.

Crowdsourced testing provides a more flexible, cost-effective means of increasing testing bandwidth and improving product quality for companies like ConsumerAffairs.

Check out any LinkedIn community, online forum, or the comments of an article about best QA practices, and you’re bound to see posts foretelling the doom of manual QA testing, advice on how to automate more of your testing, and questions on getting from manual to automated testing. That paints a pretty strong picture about […]