Software Testing: Exploratory Testing

Learn how to use exploratory testing to immediately add value at any point in a product’s development.

Introduction

• Exploration: The key to effective testing

1. What Is Exploratory Testing?

• The explore and script spectrum
• Exploratory testing defined
• Oracles and truth
• Common oracles
• Quality and value

2. How Do You Explore?

• Models
• Follow the landscape
• Variables
• Exploration in agile development
• Exploration in DevOps and production

3. Tracking Exploratory Testing

• Charters and session
• Paired testing
• Test planning
• Coverage

4. Test Techniques

• Functional testing
• Persona testing
• Risk-based testing
• Workflow testing
• Testing challenge

5. Exploration and Automation

• Scripts that help you explore
• Exploring test requirements
• Generating and analyzing data

Conclusion

• Next steps