Incorporate Exploratory Testing into your Test Strategy and find better bugs faster!
Description:
This two-day course is designed to give test engineers a global understanding of exploratory testing. From why we do it and its uses to how we do it and the value of measurement, Exploratory Testing will be examined and practiced to empower test engineers in using this method, finding better bugs earlier, focusing on customer satisfaction and making exploratory testing more manageable and easier to use as an necessary and important test method.
You Will Learn:
- How to test earlier and find better bugs!
- What is exploratory testing and why is there so much argument about its value?
- The psychology of good testers and cultural issues with exploratory testing
- When and how it can best be used in your test strategy
- Incorporating effective exploratory testing into your test strategy
- Management and measurement issues about exploratory testing
- Problems and misconceptions
- Further study
Course Outline:
Part 1 Exploratory Testing: What is it?
- Why do it?
- Testing vs. Validation
- What is it used for? Goals of exploratory testing?
- What are the common practices?
- Focus on the User
- Exploratory testing in agile development
Part 2 The Exploratory Testing Approach
- Project politics and “ad hoc” testing
- Testing psychology for exploratory testing
- Team culture and exploratory testing
- Risks of exploratory testing
- Problems and misconceptions
Part 3 How to do Exploratory Testing
- Black box, white box and gray box testing
- Discussion and exercises on varieties of exploratory testing including:
- User Scenario Testing
- Modeling
- How to Break Software (by James Whittaker)
- Error guessing
- Heuristics test oracles
- Focus on test data
- Common types of issues found in exploratory testing
Part 4 Management and measurement issues about exploratory testing
- Planning and communicating on exploratory testing
- Tips for managing and measuring exploratory testing
- Communicating coverage in exploratory testing
- When is testing done?
- Fostering a management and development team culture to support exploratory testing
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LogiGear Corporation provides global solutions for software testing, and offers public and corporate software testing training programs worldwide through LogiGear University. LogiGear is a leader in the integration of test automation, offshore resources and US project management for fast, cost-effective results. Since 1994, LogiGear has worked with Fortune 500 companies to early-stage start-ups in, creating unique solutions to meet their clients’ needs. With facilities in the US and Viet Nam, LogiGear helps companies double their test coverage and improve software quality while reducing testing time and cutting costs.
