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Intersection
of Automation and
Exploratory Testing
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
A React Finland Edition
#388
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(Exploratory)
Tester
Product is my
external
imagination
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Learning in Layers
A Demonstration of Exploratory Testing
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Gilded Rose
By Emily Bache
(available in 32 languages…)
https://github.com/emilybache/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata
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What Did You Just
Demo?
A Demonstration of Test Automation?
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Exploratory Unit Testing of
Legacy Code
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Combining My ideas of the
world, Specification and
Code Coverage while
Testing
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Shallow vs. Deep Testing
Difference in the Learning
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Disposable
test automation
Test automation
as documentation
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“External Imagination”
does not need to be a
UI
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Exploratory Testing
Test
Automation
Exploratory
Tester
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Test Automation
Exploratory
Testing
Test Automation
Specialist
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Exploratory
Tester
Test Automation
Specialist
Focus on the 1st
(always different) test
execution because
repeating narrows
scope!
Focus on the
repeating text
execution to capture
it. Repeating exactly is
valuable!
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Tester
Tester
Tester
Exploratory Automated Testing
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Existing automation
allows for exploration
reach
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Creating automation
forces exploration of
details
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Failing automation is
invitation to explore
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Tester
Tester
Tester
Automated Exploratory Testing
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Value of the software
we create links to
quality of our thinking
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The 5-Year Rule
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Tester
Tester
Tester
Automated Exploratory Testing
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Testing is done by People.
Our features define how
well testing gets done.
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Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Email: maaret@iki.fi
Twitter: @maaretp
Web: maaretp.com
Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi
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