Test management - Process
Manual testing
A person directly uses software to check that it works as expected
What's it for?
Uses a person's judgement to find problems and awkward behaviour that automatic checks may miss.
For example…
A tester walks through a new onboarding flow on a real phone and notes where the copy confuses first-time users
A tester manually tries an address form with long names, missing fields and unusual characters to see how the interface behaves beyond scripted checks
Think of it like…
Critic tasting a meal: instruments help in the kitchen, but a human still judges the experience