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Bugs and the output of manual testing

Bugs and the output of manual testing

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Bugs and the output of manual testing

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- [Instructor] As you build a repertoire of skills, techniques and a grasp of the concept surrounding testing, you're going to be using these manual skills to make a better product. The goal of any quality test is to ensure that the product is stable, delivers on its specification and operates as designed prior to the product getting to a customer. The byproduct of this effort are bugs. During manual testing, you'll be exploring every aspect of the software and as you move through this process you will encounter anomalies and behaviors that are unexpected, inconvenient, odd and often problematic. Before you decide what these behaviors are, you need to understand what it means to call something a bug. Putting it simply a bug is a function that doesn't work as designed. We could delve into a whole esoteric discussion on what makes a bug and what doesn't, but that never goes well. You see, the problem we have is…

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