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What Is This
Exploratory Testing
Thing?Tony Bruce
It’s all about me!
Tony Bruce Consulting Ltd
dancedwiththetester.blogspot.co.uk
@tonybruce77
Associate with
Big bit of self promotion
January 2015 Workshop
Perception of?
Perception of?
● Doing random stuff to see
what happens
● Impromptu bug searching
● Undisciplined
● Undocumented
● Quick
● Untooled
● Unestimateable
● Unmanageable
What is it?
The plainest definition of exploratory testing is test design
and test execution at the same time.- James Bach - http://www.satisfice.com/articles/what_is_et.shtml
Simultaneously designing and executing tests to learn about
the system, using your insights from the last experiment to
inform the next- Elisabeth Hendrickson - Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory
Testing
What is it?
http://swtester.blogspot.ca/2012/05/what-is-exploratory-testing.html
What is it?
Leaders
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Under
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Bob S
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What can it involve?
Scientific MethodQuestion
Hypothesis
Strategy
Experiment
Data
Analysis
Conclusion
What can it involve?
What can it include?
…...when a programmer is creating unit tests to drive the
development (Q1), they are thinking about the feature and
design and making choices about what to automate. There is
a lot of learning going on in this process and I would very
much consider this discovery process as "exploratory"......
…...executing these checks that were created in an
exploratory way is no longer an exploratory testing
activity…….
http://swtester.blogspot.ca/2012/05/what-is-exploratory-testing.html
Example
What can it include? - People/Pairs
Example
● Locked down Jira
● Group of Product Owners
● Exploring
● What worked for them
● What didn’t work for them
Report & Manage
Session Based Test Management
Session Based
Exp
lora
tory
Te
stin
g in
Ag
ile C
on
text -
Elis
ab
eth
Hen
dric
kso
n
Session Based
Date/Time:
Mission:
Task:
Setup:
Data:
Notes:
Issues:
Thoughts:
The entire session report consists of
these sections:
• Session charter (includes a mission
statement, and areas to be tested)
• Tester name(s)
• Date and time started
• Task breakdown
• Data files
• Test notes
• Issues
• Bugs
http://www.satisfice.com/articles/sbtm.pdf
Session
Example Session Sheet
CHARTER
-----------------------------------------------
Analyze MapMaker’s View menu functionality and
report on
areas of potential risk.
#AREAS
OS | Windows 2000
Menu | View
Strategy | Function Testing
Strategy | Functional Analysis
START
-----------------------------------------------
5/30/00 03:20 pm
TESTER
-----------------------------------------------
Jonathan Bach
TASK BREAKDOWN
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TEST NOTES
-----------------------------------------------
I touched each of the menu items, below, but focused
mostly on zooming behavior with various
combinations of map elements displayed.
View: Welcome Screen
Navigator
Locator Map
Legend
Map Elements
Highway Levels
Street Levels
Airport Diagrams
BUGS
-----------------------------------------------
#BUG 1321
Zooming in makes you put in the CD 2 when you get
to a certain level of granularity (the street names level)
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Manage
Discipline Structure
FocusManageable
Planning
RepeatableEstimatable Time-box
Tools
Tools
Browser
- Add-ons
- Extensions
- Developer tools
Others
- Accessibility
- Security
- Debugging
- Automation
- Ide
- Infrastructure
What is in it for you?
How does the team
benefit?● Learn
● Information
● Intelligence
Information Flow
Information Flow
Information
- Session reports
- Documents
- Coverage
- Unknowns - Knowns
- Augment automation
- Visual
- Charters/Missions
- Pair
Challenges
What stops people being as productive as they
could be with Exploratory Testing?
Challenges
How can we talk about the differences between
Scripted and Exploratory?
Challenges
What are yours?
Thank you
Tony Bruce Consulting Ltd
dancedwiththetester.blogspot.co.uk
@tonybruce77
Associate with
