Applied Exploratory Testing

When using experience-based techniques a lot of testers focus on just "getting the testing done", starting the testing effort without consideration for what to test and when. Exploratory Testing is not an excuse to not document, cut corners, or "just follow your nose". It is a structured, disciplined and advanced technique.

When using an Exploratory Testing approach it becomes even more critical to plan and prepare the team to ensure the testing is effective and efficient. This course shows how Exploratory Testing techniques can be used to maximise the return on investment from the test team. It introduces planning, key techniques, tracking, tools and reporting with reference to Exploratory Testing. Various types of test approaches are explored. Participants will learn how these can be used to focus their testing and maximise the testing efficiency of the team. Participants will learn about tours, checklists, test charters and other exploratory test techniques in a hands-on and practical day of testing.

You'll learn

During this course you will learn about:

• The fundamentals of how to plan and structure an effective and efficient approach to exploratory testing
• The important factors to be considered in the planning of exploratory testing and the key techniques and tools that can be used.

Great for

Anyone interested in using exploratory testing.

You'll need

To get the most out of this course, you will need to have a basic understanding of software testing.