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Can We Learn Automation Testing Without Manual Testing knowledge? Software Test Types, Techniques, Methods, and QA Functional Knowledge.

We can learn Manual Testing directly and start working, no prerequisites to learn or work with Manual Testing.

Then what about to learn Automated Testing?,
Is Manual Testing prerequisite to learn Automated Testing?
Can’t we learn Automated Testing without Manual Testing Knowledge?

We can learn Automated Testing without Manual Testing Knowledge, but not efficiently, Why because Functional Knowledge is required for any type of job.

Note: Functional Testing and Functional Knowledge, both are different.

Functional Knowledge is the practical, tangible, and usable knowledge of a particular business function.

In Manual Testing we can learn SDLC, STLC Processes, Test Types, Test Techniques, Test Documents, and Testing Terms. If you know the Manual Testing concepts then yo can easily understand, Software Test Life Cycle, Bug Life Cycle, and Test Closure, etc.

To learn Automated Testing, especially Automated Functional Testing, Programming knowledge also required.