Why Do Exploratory Testing?
Recurring themes in the management of an effective exploratory test cycle are tester, test strategy, test reporting, and test mission. The scripted approach to testing attempts to mechanize the test process by taking test ideas out of a test designers head and putting them on paper. Theres a lot of value in that way of testing. But exploratory testers take the view that writing down test scripts and following them tends to disrupt the intellectual processes that make testers able to find important problems quickly. The more we can make testing intellectually rich and fluid, the more likely we will hit upon the right tests at the right time. Thats where the power of exploratory testing comes in: the richness of this process is only limited by the breadth and depth of our imagination and our emerging insights into the nature of the product under test. In the rapid testing classes at Satisfice, Inc., we have equipment that watches testers invent tests in real-time. When the instructor mak
