12 Best Manual Testing Tools to Enhance Software Quality and Performance

Manual testing and automated testing check your software’s quality, reliability, and user-centricity. Despite automated testing’s popularity, manual testing is important because it gives a human perspective, touch, and insights into the software experience. A full spectrum of testing tools assists testers in inspecting the solution from each aspect – functionality, usability, performance, security, and acceptability. 

This blog discovers the top 12 manual testing tools that ensure test case creation, strong bug tracking, and detailed reports on testers’ feedback. Dive into this world of manual testing tools to enhance your testing processes. 

Top 12 Manual Testing Tools  

BrowserStack 

The key merit of this tool is that it enables manual testing across many actual devices, operating systems, and browsers in any combination on the cloud. Thus, you don’t need to create local setups or installations to facilitate any combination of testing; it is all possible on the cloud. This actual device testing gives you an analysis of how the software looks and functions in real-time on different screens and in diverse environments, giving you immediate, accurate results. 

It is easily integrable with many project management tools like JIRA, Slack, GitHub, and Trello that facilitate bug reporting and notification. Moreover, accessibility to hundreds of browsers and devices on a cloud-based platform lends scalability and cost-effectiveness to your manual testing efforts.  

JIRA

JIRA can efficiently manage test cases, track defects, and handle test functionalities. It empowers testers to create a detailed roadmap with necessary tasks, resources, and timelines and ensure effective management. JIRA is a popular tool and preferred worldwide because different industries vouch for the benefits it brings to their manual testing process. 

It allows you to create test cases, organize them, prioritize them based on criticality, allocate team members, monitor their progress, and report the results. You can also integrate JIRA with other tools to enhance its functionality, such as providing feedback by integrating it with Marker. 

Marker.io

The ease of use of Marker.io makes it a preferred tool among manual testers. Since you can install it as a tool or browser extension on a live website, it can submit the reports on defects identified directly from the website to your project management tool. Thus, it is a convenient process to get the bug status of your website, using which you can make relevant changes, fix them, and resolve the issues.

Another great feature is its submission of a 30-second recording just before the bug submission, enabling an in-depth understanding of the cause of the issue. When integrated with the project management tool, you will find ease in task allocation, sending email notifications, and bug report generation. 

LoadRunner 

Primarily a performance testing tool, LoadRunner handles load and stress testing. It helps you inspect the following aspects of your software:

• If several users can access and use the software at the same time without any breakdown. It means it measures how much load the software can take. 
• What is the breaking point of the software, after which it cannot take more load? It means it measures the impact on software performance with load beyond standard capacity.
• If the software usage for an extended period affects its behavior or performance in terms of memory and usability. It means it finds out if the memory is full or functionality becomes weaker after long usage of the software. 

For testing all these scenarios, LoadRunner allows realistic simulation, real-time monitoring, and extensive analysis with detailed reports. 

SonarQube 

SonarQube is a continuous code quality testing tool that is popular due to its in-depth inspection and analysis. You can use this tool to conduct static code analysis to detect bugs, flaws, and smells in the code. This tool easily identifies any specific areas in the codebase requiring refactoring, helping you manage technical debt. 

Such detailed code investigation of complexity and duplication supports developers in aligning with best practices and enhancing code quality. You can also integrate the tool with other external tools and CI/CD pipelines to develop detailed and insightful reports and analytics on quality assurance at every testing stage, along with recovery methods. 

LambdaTest

It is an AI-native test execution platform that allows automated and manual testing. The best merit of LambdaTest is that it allows real-time software testing on more than 5000 devices, operating systems, and browser combinations. These can be remotely located, so you don’t need to invest in on-premise infrastructure. Thus, this tool allows a detailed investigation of the software’s cross-browser and cross-device compatibility. 

You can directly identify defects in layout, functionality, and performance during the testing process. You can take screenshots and monitor real-time user interaction to find differences in behavior in different environments. Collaboration with other tools allows you to track bugs, provide reports, and debug them immediately. 

Jenkins

Jenkins is a software testing tool that integrates manual testing into the software development process and automates it. Its wide usage in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows makes it a preferred tool to streamline software development. 

Its flexibility facilitates agile software development. You can also integrate it with test management tools to create test cases, manage test environments, execute test cases, and generate detailed reports. Thus, Jenkins makes manual testing easier and smoother, leading to better-quality software. 

Citrus

If you are looking for a manual testing tool that tracks defects in detail and provides in-depth analysis and reports, Citrus is the answer. It is an excellent manual testing tool with end-to-end testing capabilities. 

Its speciality lies in integration testing, especially verifying and validating message-based integrations. After testing with Citrus, you can ensure constant and smooth communication between internal and external components in a software solution. So, if your software has complicated integrations, test it with Citrus to ensure error-free and quality outcomes. 

ZAP

Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an open-source tool explicitly used for software security testing. It allows manual testing by facilitating testers’ engagement with the software, altering requests and commands, and observing the software’s response.  

It also works as an intercepting proxy between the web server and browser, enabling testing of the user’s security through traffic analysis. Thus, it can scan software thoroughly and detect points where user security is compromised. Testers can set it up quickly, run the test, scan the software, and identify security-related issues, such as cross-site request forgery, cross-site scripting, and SQL injection, among others. 

Avo Assure

Avo Assure is an AI-powered automated and manual software testing tool. Since it is a no-code tool, technical and non-technical users can use it for software testing. Moreover, it enables easy creation, management, and organization of test cases to cover all possible scenarios. Thus, it makes test creation and execution easier, more cost-effective, and faster. 

You can monitor defects for a longer time and produce insightful visual reports on these to better understand developers. These detailed reports help in trend analysis of bugs, leading to efficient resolution. 

Bugzilla

Bugzilla allows testers to track issues and flaws in the software and keep a complete track of the bug features, including status, severity, and impact. Such detailed monitoring of bugs in software helps you manage and resolve them smoothly. 

This manual testing tool also helps you manage workflow by creating customized workflows, allocating user permissions, tracking defects, and meeting targets. You can also create detailed reports and trend analyses on bugs and inconsistencies. Search and filtering are also possible with this tool. Test case management and execution required in manual testing are impossible with this tool, but you can integrate it with other tools to facilitate these features. 

Mantis

An easy-to-use tool, Mantis helps software testers detect defects and manage projects. It has a web-based interface that you can explore easily to detect defects, manage them, and complete project tasks. 

This tool enables testers to monitor bugs for project phases and manage and report them for easy issue resolution. Not only defects, but you can also track project tasks to help you with project management. It gives you the flexibility to customize your workflows based on project requirements. Email notifications are an exciting feature in Mantis, which helps with client communication and collaboration among team members. 

Conclusion

You have the list of the top 12 manual testing tools with you. All excel in one, two, or more types of testing – performance, usability, security, functionality, etc. Use them according to your project needs and scope to generate efficient and quality software outcomes. 

Inevitable Infotech uses most of these manual testing tools to enable the creation of innovative and excellent software solutions.  With your focus on strategizing and software development, we handle the quality assurance of these software solutions for you. So, set yourself free from the tension of quality, just focus on your ideas, and keep developing; we are here to test your software ideas and ensure their success. 

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