Questions tagged [exploratory]
"Exploratory testing is a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and responsibility of the individual tester to continually optimize the value of her work by treating test-related learning, test design, test execution, and test result interpretation as mutually supportive activities that run in parallel throughout the project." Cem Kaner, 2006.
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Do you disable JavaScript as part of your testing? If so, how do you know whether something is buggy?
I sometimes disable JavaScript to see how a website behaves without it. I'm often surprised how much the content display relies on it. But I'm unsure whether it's a bug. I read that almost everybody ...
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Should Tester's still focus more on writing Test cases than Exploratory testing? [closed]
I don't focus much on writing hundreds of test cases in any test case management tool. I create my exploratory testing notes which include different test ideas, scenarios, heuristics-based test design ...
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Areas in session based testing test chart
I am not sure how to distinguish the chart and the areas in it...
For me, the chart describes in one sentence what the session is all about.
And the areas are a (probably incomplete) high-level ...
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How do you do "controlled" exploratory testing of highly concurrent code?
("controlled" as in you have control over the order in which code executes, rather than the underlying scheduler(s))
I was asked in an interview earlier "How would you test for race ...
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Help to test email provider
I recently started working for an Email provider company as a QA. However, I never had to test encrypted emails before, and am a bit lost. Has anyone here tested emails before? If so, I would ...
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How to effectively document exploratory testing sessions for future re-use without slowing down?
Background: On using exploratory testing heavily complimenting automated testing , where every tester documents his/her observations in individual personal ways in fast timebox sessions which is ...
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Strategies for discovering undocumented API
Inspired by this question: How to approach API testing.
The first point of a checklist in the above question is "API Endpoints".
But, what to do when you don't have the endpoints documented because ...
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How to combine exploratory testing with test automation creatively?
Background :There is an definite value in automated test execution of scripted tests to find regression defects.
On the other hand there is an tremendous value in exploratory testing and going beyond ...
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How can a software tester improve their note-taking skills while doing exploratory testing?
Should we take notes in a simple text file or should we take it in a fancy Excel sheet?
How can we take effective notes that can be helpful while revisiting a testing module or application?
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Reducing production failures in case of multiple releases across multiple projects on a daily basis
Currently, I'm handling QA for umpteen number of projects (web and mobile). All these projects have multiple features being rolled out on a daily basis. The number of production bugs increased ...
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Possible scenarios for a periodic task that is run daily at 11:40 PM to process a data set available globally
I'm testing an e-commerce website and there is a deviation that is occurring on a daily basis for a periodic task that runs daily at 11:40 PM.
In essence, what this task does that it picks all orders ...
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Name for exploratory "role play" testing?
Our company produces a business-to-business software which is (more or less) a social network for companies.
Every now and then, we organize some kind of "Role Play session" for testing the software. ...
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What may be the edge cases for testing a 'Payment link in SMS' feature?
We are testing a new feature that is about to get released in a few days and most of the testing has been done by the team.
The feature in essence is about payment link being sent in SMS to
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Exploratory testing against ChromeBook
We are doing exploratory testing against a web-browser based application on ChromeBook.
I have never worked with a ChromeBook laptop before, is there any specifics we need to pay attention on when ...
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What is the best way to start & perform Exploratory Testing?
In traditional testing follow a fairly simple model in which there are test cases written beforehand for all the possible use cases and then after the test cases are final, they are executed & ...
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