Exploratory Testing

What is Exploratory Testing?

Ans:- Simultaneous Test Design and Test Execution

ET is very different from script based testing where we prepare test procedures, automate them etc.. ET is not as planned as Script based.

The core competency of the tester lies in simultaneous test design and Test Execution. Its good to note his ideas about the test.

Scripted testing has its place like in the case of a very complex project where it is required to repeat some critical functionality we need scripts for that to perform regression testing.

The issues we face here are how to track the test coverage. Let us have a basic view of how this happens and documents required in this testing.

Test methodology

1. First do basic system study and divide into functionalities/Pages.
2. Try to analyze high risk areas and prioritize this functionalities
3. Analyze approximate time for functionality
4. Analyze resources (testers) and time available (time to test the software)
5. Plan Bug Tracking and issue logging and tracking

Or

Alternatively we can ask tester to analyze the time required for them and get details from them.

Note:

Once ET is done, it is recommended to go for Scenario based testing. Plan for the scenario based testing separately using some resources to analyze and prepare the Use Cases.

Test Management

This table maintains data about the sessions. Functionalities covered in it, time taken, by whom, issues logged, and session status.

S

Session ID

References: (Any Docs)

Risks and Tasks:

Task breakdown (the TBS metrics)

Example

{

#Duration: 5 Short

#Test Design and Execution: 34

#Bug Investigation and Reporting: 65

#Session Setup: 10

}

Test Notes:

Example

{ I Clicked on all the items of the menu and all other in the page.

Checked all the alignments issues.

Checked the data displayed dynamically (User name and password)

Risks:

- Incorrect display of username and password

- Incorrect display due to Database issue }

Or

BugS

#Bug 456

Alignment of the certain text is not proper. Attached screen shots.

#Bug 1331

Alignment of the picture at different zooming levels.