Manual testing is a testing technique, where test engineer test the software manually. The test engineer, who carries out all the test cases and executes on the application manually, step by step and indicates whether a particular step was accomplished successfully or whether it failed, performs manual testing,. In this paper we describe importance of manual testing in age of automated testing because I think that manual testing is a base of automated testing

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