Why use Exploratory Testing?
Below are some of the reasons for using exploratory testing:
- Random and unstructured testing: Exploratory testing is unstructured and thus can help to reveal bugs that would of undiscovered during structured phases of testing.
- Testers can play around with user stories: With exploratory testing, testers can annotate defects, add assertions, and voice memos and in this way, the user story is converted to a test case.
- Facilitate agile workflow: Exploratory testing helps formalize the findings and document them automatically. Everyone can participate in exploratory testing with the help of visual feedback thus enabling the team to adapt to changes quickly and facilitating agile workflow.
- Reinforce traditional testing process: Using tools for automated test case documentation testers can convert exploratory testing sequences into functional test scripts.
- Speeds up documentation: Exploratory testing speeds up documentation and creates an instant feedback loop.
- Export documentation to test cases: Integration exploratory testing with tools like Jira recorded documentation can be directly exported to test cases.
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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