In manual testing, a human sits before computer and follow all steps that are to be performed whenever test cases are to be checked. In automation testing, test cases remain same while execution is done through various automated tools. There are hundreds of tools are available, some are of very large scale while some are free and of small scale. Nowadays automation tools are very versatile in nature, one can enter data, execute data, compare output results through tools. Reports are also auto generated through these tools.
Through these tools, one can repeat same test case execution as many times as needed. Once test is automated with the help of pre-written scripts then there will be no need of human intervention in the process. Through these tools, one can save time, effort and cost also. There are numerous automation tools that are extremely popular namely QTP, Loadrunner etc. Over years many large and small scale automation tools have come in market.
If you want to know which automation tool will be suitable for your software then you can ask our expert. All software testing tools run through scripts that are light programming language. You need script writer that can be done trough technical experts only. On other hand manual testing can be done without having programming language.