As the name says, explatory testing means leanrn , explore and test. Its a concept of software testing where learning and testing is done simultaneously. Its the responsibility and ownership of tester to optimize the testing of application through self learning and deciding the risk areas.Its actually a black-box testing technique.
- In exploratory testing approach testers are involved in minimum planning and maximum test execution.
- The planning includes creation of a test case, a short declaration of the scope of a short time-boxed test effort, the objectives and possible approaches to be used.
- The test design and test execution are performed parallelly without any formal documentation of test conditions, test cases or test scripts. However, this does not imply that other more formal testing techniques will not be used.
Note : There may be a confusion between Ad-hoc and Explatory testing. In Exploratory testing the product is developed, studied and tested simultaneously while ad-hoc is informal and improvisational approach to assessing the viability of a product.
- In exploratory testing approach testers are involved in minimum planning and maximum test execution.
- The planning includes creation of a test case, a short declaration of the scope of a short time-boxed test effort, the objectives and possible approaches to be used.
- The test design and test execution are performed parallelly without any formal documentation of test conditions, test cases or test scripts. However, this does not imply that other more formal testing techniques will not be used.
Note : There may be a confusion between Ad-hoc and Explatory testing. In Exploratory testing the product is developed, studied and tested simultaneously while ad-hoc is informal and improvisational approach to assessing the viability of a product.
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