Modern engineering and product teams must meet an increasingly high bar for quality and speed. While QA automation is marketed as a quick way to increase cadence to meet consumer demands, fusing manual and automated strategies creates a more effective, failsafe approach. Automated testing ensures consistency and immediate test execution, while manual testing offers flexibility and actionable insights.

Manually testing a website can be as simple as opening a web page or application in a staging environment, manually clicking through a list of test cases, and marking whether they passed or failed on a spreadsheet. And in fact, that's where most software teams start when they first invest in QA.

Communications on electronic trading platforms are based on well-defined protocols. These protocols are in standardized format for the “Exchange of information” between the systems. Electronic Exchanges have completely different protocols that they presently expose as their E-Trading interface as below.

Continuous testing is the practice of testing software as frequently as possible (e.g., multiple times per day) and as early as possible in the development lifecycle. With more frequent updates and faster bug fixes, your product can be more responsive to market changes and the needs of customers.