Presented at deliver:Agile 2018
https://deliveragile2018.sched.com/event/DqER/beyond-waste-exploratory-charters-in-action-claire-moss
Think manual testing is waste? Think again! If you're not learning when you're testing, you're doing it wrong! People exploring systems can be your best defense against unknown problems and your greatest way of finding unexpected opportunities.
While automation is well adapted for repeating the same thing over and over again, human beings are great at doing things differently.
Doing is not enough! We need to think during our review and examination processes to improve outcomes. How do we design manual exploration to provide value in today's fast-moving development culture?
Come to this workshop for hands-on experience with the full lifecycle of exploratory testing charters.
Learning Outcomes:
Structuring manual exploratory testing for transparency
Charter guidance during test execution
Outcomes of exploratory testing
Value delivery through debrief of testing session
3. Think manual testing
is waste?
Think again!
If you're not learning
when you're testing,
you're doing it wrong!
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4. People exploring systems can be
your best defense against unknown
problems
and your greatest way of finding
unexpected opportunities.
and your greatest way of finding
unexpected opportunities.
@aclairefication #deliveragile2018
11. What do we
want to learn?
How could we learn?
What do we need to learn?
What can help us to learn?
What limitations do we have?
Explore <target>
With <resources,
tools, constraints>
To discover
<information>
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15. What are the
outcomes?
What did we discover?
How did we discover it?
How do we
deliver this learning
as value
to the team?
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Charter = mission statement of the exploratory testing session… maaaaybe some tactics
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Generating passwords the XKCD way is our problem statement
There are several different solution implementations already deployed to the internet:
http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator/
https://xkpasswd.net/s/
http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/