Optimizing Your Manual QA Testing Stack for Continuous Deployment

Manual QA is an important aspect of a comprehensive testing strategy, but it can drag your

deployment speed down significantly. Here’s how to rethink manual QA tasks to get to CI/CD without compromising on quality.

Here's how manual testing activities stack up in a continuous testing landscape:

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Focusing on these high-value manual tests that benefit from human perspective helps you get the most out of your in-house QA team.

UsabilityTesting

FunctionalTesting

Regression Testing

GUI Testing

Cross Browser Testing

Database Testing

Sanity/SmokeTests

Exploratory Testing

End-to-endTesting

Rainforest QA platform lets you leverage crowdsourced testing to speed up your manual QA. Rainforest QA is a fast, scalable solution to bring

testing up to the speed of continuous deployment.

Test results in 30 minutes

Improved quality and speed for CD

Scalable to fit testing needs over time30’

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Optimizing Continuous Testing with Rainforest QA

Orgs who think manual testing is the #1 technical challenge in

development1

DevOps companies who use continuous testing

practices1

QA tasks still run using traditional manual

practices1

39% 50% 54%

Many foundational manual checking tasks are repetitive, but essential. Finding ways to automate or outsource these activities helps minimize the time spent on manual QA.

Evaluates whether a product or feature performs the way

you think it will in concrete ways.

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Fast results and easily replicable tests

Explores the product to learn more about it, from its limitations to how it can be

improved.

Benefits from a human tester’s perspective and flexibility

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1Source: https://www.capgemini.com/events/world-quality-report-2015-16-pre-order-form