What is the difference between Manual technical testing and Manual functional testing?

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Permalink Reply by Siddiq on November 1, 2012 at 10:51am

lol testing is testing no matter what you call.

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Permalink Reply by Anna Trinh Vu on November 5, 2012 at 12:25pm

I think he checked whether your friend only had experience interacting with application UI or he were also do some “technical stuff”, i.e. if he need install WebSphere, troubleshoot database connection issues, etc. – would he do it himself or ask his technical support. You may also like to refer http://pathfindersoftware.com/2011/05/functional-test-vs-technical-...

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Permalink Reply by Sachin Srivastava on November 6, 2012 at 1:03am

Agree with tatashine's answer and ROFL for Siddiqu's answer

My suggestion to you would be when you get an interview call then you should be confident enough to ask back the question to the person who is talking to you. Mostly leaves an impression about your interest in the field you work. Now if an HR had called you it would be better for the HR to get requirement from technical team that what technical skill set they need.

Simple manual testing would not need any technical skill set and can be done by BA's who are knowledge bases of their domains and few good manual testers who gain knowledge based out of their experience in the domain.

Wherein as rightly told by tatashine regarding technical manual testing the manual flows that you would write will have to be validated for DBtrace, Webserver trace or data validation etc and then offcourse may also need some troubleshooting.

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