Manual testing Vs Automated testing

Testing can be mainly classified into manual and automated testing. With regard to this certain questions come to mind.

They include:

What is the basic difference between the two types of testing?
What are the elements of challenges involved in both manual and automated testing?
What are the different skill sets required by a software tester for manual and automated testing respectively?
What are the different job prospects and growth opportunities among software testers who do manual testing automated testing respectively?
Is manual testing under rated to automated testing in anyway(s)? If yes, how?
How differently are the manual testers treated in comparison to automated testers in the corporate world? (If they truly are differentiated in any terms as such)

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The Main Advantage with Automated Testing is that you can do regression testing quickly.. Developer can verify previous functionality, if it is working fine or not after adding new functionalities into the System.
So when you are working with a tight deadline then by using Automation tools you can reduce you testing effort.. so at that time you have to check only those functionality for which you haven't created automated test scripts. ( Like Email/SMS notifications Testing, Browser Compatibility/UI etc etc.)
Today many companies are using Open Source Automation Tools (Like Selenium, OpenSTA, JMeter etc) for their normal testing efforts. So it's better if you know how to test an application using these freeware tools instead of paid tools.

answered 2011-06-24T09:31:03.193

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