Test Automation in Focus: Threat or Opportunity for Manual Testers?
Ever since Quality Assurance was recognized as a formal practice in Software Development Lifecycle, manual testers have held high the responsibility of ensuring a bug-free software delivery. Over the years, manual testing community has adapted several tools and processes to continually enhance the outcome and predictability of application quality. Software expands with every new release, update, and modification. Testers have a crucial role and a daunting task to keep up with the regression testing, ensure quality of new features, test integration with other systems, keep a track of defects, and maintain a log for new ones. Test Automation has proved to be disruptive, and many software testers have jumped on this automation bandwagon so to speak. But with so many predictions, opinions, and innovation around test automation, will the manual testeru2019s role remain the same or will it change with time? Hereu2019s our take on the topic:
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