How do you organize your manual testing / QA cases?

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What I’m trying to do:
I have a bunch of manual test cases for doing QA on my app. Basically, instructions to follow to test certain things, and notes about what the expected outcome is. I want to organize them somewhere.

What I’ve tried:
I have looked at a bunch of vendors for this - pretty much all paid. The big one is TestRail. But I don’t need a bazooka, I just need something simple.

So far I have set up a list of cases in a Notion database, and ChatGPT recommends I create a Markdown file in my repo.

I’m curious - what are you all doing on this front?

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I use https://playwright.dev

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I don’t see anything about manual testing in playwright. Seems to be automated testing only.

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This isn’t answering your question, but I’m curious why you want to do so much manual testing that you need to organize it. Is it things that are too hard to automate?

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I stopped doing automated testing for one of my apps. The reason was that my code changes too often and refactoring test code was slowing me down too much - it takes me a fraction of the time to manually test the same things.

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With advance apologies if I’m saying something you already know, I found this talk helpful for understanding how to avoid this testing pitfall (not that I habitually put it into practice myself quite yet!):