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Software Testing: Exploratory Testing

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Dave Westerveld

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