Software

Exploratory Testing

Course Overview

This course provides you with the knowledge you’ll need to implement Exploratory Testing as part of your testing approach. Its workshop style gives you practice exercises, building confidence to enable you to successfully take this
technique back into your team.
  

Upon completion of this course you will know:

  •  What Exploratory Testing is
  • How Exploratory Testing relates to traditional techniques
  • When Exploratory Testing should be used
  • How to manage exploratory testing sessions.
 

You will Learn

The nature of exploration:
  • Curiosity and testing
  • Chains of exploration
  • Lone v pair testing
  • Learning by exploring
Testing techniques and exploration
  • Exploratory test charters and sessions
  • How to create and use test models
  • Scripted v non-scripted tests
  • Heuristic techniques and fault models
When to use Exploratory Testing
  • Testing tours approach
  • Bug hunts, parties and fests
  • Goal and risk-driven exploration
  • Including exploration in your plans
  • Documenting exploration
  • Exploring to find faults in requirements

 

Course materials include all slides and exercise handouts. We’ll test a real web application so you will need a wireless enabled laptop with a modern browser.

 
 

Who Should Attend?

This workshop will be useful for any practitioner or manager having an interest in applying Exploratory Testing to their testing approach:
 
  • Project managers
  • Test managers
  • Test practitioners
  • Developers

As an individual you can attend our public one day courses. As a team, you can learn together and build your own Exploratory Testing Approach.