Workshop:

The Workshop

This full day workshop teaches testers the basics of Exploratory Testing and how to apply it in your testing processes. We will define what Exploratory Testing is, investigate the different approaches further, and also show the benefits from this testing type. We will also look at some practical techniques and tools you can use when doing exploratory testing. This is a practical and hands on full day class. As the workshop is entirely oriented towards exercises and real-world scenarios and examples, you should bring your laptop.

The Trainer

Agenda

The workshop will focus on the following aspects of Exploratory Testing:

• Understanding the basic approaches in Exploratory Testing
• How to recognize bugs without having requirements
• Charters in Session Based Testing
• Pair Based Exploratory Testing
• State & Transition diagrams and State & Transition tables
• Table of feature dependencies (technique developed personally by the trainer)
• Persona Based Testing
• 6 Thinking Hats in Exploratory Testing
• Reporting in Exploratory Testing to your Managers

Benefits

You will learn:

• What is Exploratory testing, how and when to use it
• Techniques in Exploratory Testing
• How to improve your tester skills and abilities
• How to know when to stop Exploratory Testing
• How to encourage customers on Exploratory Testing
• Basic tools for applying Exploratory Testing on your projects even easier

Requirements

This workshop is suitable for you if:

• You are software tester, test lead or manager, or even developer who wants to learn the basic concepts of Exploratory testing
• You want to improve your working process by adding exploratory testing as additional technique in your team and testing process
• You are looking for a way to improve your defect detection ratio

The Venue