Many organizations call upon business analysts and testers to validate system operation manually, noting their observations as they interact with the application. This manual testing process can be time-consuming and error prone, particularly if the application undergoes frequent changes. IBM Rational Manual Tester was created to address this problem.

IBM Rational Manual Tester is a manual test authoring and execution tool that promotes test step reuse to reduce the impact of software change on testers and business analysts.

How does it do this? Rational Manual Tester adds organization and control to all activities that comprise a manual testing effort, including test creation and modification, test organization and consolidation for distributed team members, test execution and results collection and test results reporting.