What are the Challenges faced in Manual and Automation testing.

In my point of view when project goes on expanding ,the regression testing work simply becomes uncontrolled. Pressure to handle the current functionality changes, previous working functionality checks and bug tracking.

I feel that in both Manual and Automation Testing the manjor is concern is on Quality and Timeliness.

I strongly oppose that "Testers are Just meant to start the Test planning after obtaining requirements"

The Tester is supposed to measure/validate the quality of requirement that was given and then think of whether to automate it or not.

coming to Manual Testing. Manual Testing holds good till regression in terms of quality  but while regression is process it is the concern about the quality of the manual testing due to repetetiveness. But coming to automation we cannot completely rely on the automation tool as the tool is again just a software which is not so reliable

so I feel the major challanges faces in Manual and Automation Testing are Quality, Timeliness and Reliablity.

In automation testing, its necessary for the tester, to have the programming knowledge. Automation testing is not recomnded for low budget project.

But Manual testing can be used in both Low and high budget projects. For regression testing we can use automation testing tools insted of manual testing becuase its excute the test case very quickly.

I always support automation testing tool for the testing.

Risks in manual testing are:

Time consuming, If testers are lazy then some important funtionality may be missed out, If Time is a factor then obviously cost will increase, and more resources should be added.

Risks in Automation are:

Fist of all we can only automate long run projects, and products. We can't automate all the applications due to time factor. Because autiomation of a certain application may take up to 10 times the cost of manual testing.

So we need to identify which projects can we automate. And for automation we need resources should have knowledge in domain, automation tools and Programming knowledge.

When we comming into conclution based on the analysis of this only we can select automation and manual.

Whenever the order comes from boss, tester simply focuses on task completion and not on the test coverage and quality of work. There is huge list of tasks that a tester need to complete within specified time. This includes writing, executing, automating and reviewing the test cases which create hurdle for tester.

What do you say guys?

I completely agree with ideas given by Kiran,but in addition to that when project manager is handling multi project than Challenges arises to keep track of each task.,& communication challenges. which may results in failure of one or both the projects.

In my opinion Relationship with developers big challenge. It requires very skilled tester to handle this relation positively and even by completing the work in testers way. There are simply hundreds of excuses developers or testers can make when they are not agree with some points. For this tester also requires good communication,troubleshooting & analyzing skills.