Types of Exploratory Testing
There are many types of exploratory testing. Few are as follows:
- Freestyle: In freestyle exploratory testing, the application is tested in an ad-hoc way, there is no maximum coverage, and there are no rules to follow for testing. It is done in the following cases:
- When there is a need to get friendly with the application.
- To check other test engineers’ work.
- To perform smoke tests quickly.
- Strategy Based: Strategy-based testing can be performed with the help of multiple testing techniques like decision-table testing, cause-effect graphing, boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, and error guessing. It is done by an experienced tester who has known the application for the longest time.
- Scenario Based: Scenario-based exploratory testing is done based on scenarios with the help of multiple scenarios like end-to-end, test scenarios. The scenarios can be provided by the user or can be prepared by the test team.
- Collaborative Exploratory Testing: During exploration, several testers work together, exchanging observations and insights. Working together improves the variety of viewpoints and raises the possibility of finding various kinds of flaws.
- Charter-Based Exploratory Testing: The charter, a written document that describes the goals and scope of the investigation, is followed by testers. The charter could list particular features to test, situations to consider or goals to accomplish.
- Timing-Boxed Exploratory Testing: There is a temporal limit on how long exploration can last. The goal of testers is to find as many serious flaws as they can in the allotted period.
Exploratory Testing
Exploratory Testing is a type of software testing in which the tester is free to select any possible methodology to test the software. It is an unscripted approach to software testing. In exploratory testing, software developers use their learning, knowledge, skills, and abilities to test the software developed by themselves. Exploratory testing checks the functionality and operations of the software as well as identify the functional and technical faults in it. Exploratory testing aims to optimize and improve the software in every possible way. The exploratory testing technique combines the experience of testers with a structured approach to testing. It is often performed as a black box testing technique. 4 Exploratory testing is an unscripted testing technique.
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