The Case for Manual Software Testing

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Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design

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This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book 

Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design

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Exercises

1. Why can't we just build software to test software? Why isn't automation the answer to the software-testing problem?

2. What type of code is automation good at testing? What type of code requires manual testing? Try to form a theory to explain why.

3. What types of bugs is automation good at detecting? What types of bugs is automation bad at detecting? Give examples.