The document discusses exploratory testing techniques. It presents four key insights: 1) balancing manual and automated testing by considering their trade-offs, 2) managing testing in sessions with defined topics, timeboxes, notes, and debriefings, 3) using a test charter to define the target, resources, and information to discover when exploring a feature, and 4) employing heuristics like history, user expectations, and familiar problems to guide testing. The document emphasizes exploring the unknown and balancing known and unknown aspects of testing.

1. Exploratory Testing
–
For devs, testers,
and you
Markus Gärtner
@mgaertne
Meike Mertsch
@meikemertsch
it-agile GmbH

2. I don‘t know
what
you don‘t know

3. I don‘t know
what
I don‘t know

4. ... what ...
... I know ... I don‘t know
I know...
Knowledge Ignorance
I don‘t know...
Unconcious Second order
knowledge ignorance

5. 4 of the most liked insights
of our courses...
 Trade-Off manual and automated testing
 Session-based test management
 Test Charter
 Heuristics

6. Trade-off manual and
automated testing

7. Testing Pyramid
manual
UI
„Integration“
Tests
Unit-Tests

8. Session-based Test
management

9. Session-based Test
management
 Topic
 Time-boxed
 Notes
 Debriefing

10. Test-Charter

11. Test Charter
Explore <target>
With <resources>
To discover <information>
target – feature, requirement or module
resources – tools, data set, techniques
information – does it work? security,
performance, reliability

12. Heuristics

13. Heuristics
 History
 Image
 Comparable Products
 Claims
 UserExpectations
 Purpose
 Product
 Standards and Statuses
 Familiar Problems

14. 4 of the most liked insights
of our courses...
 Trade-Off manual and automated testing
 Session-based test management
 Test Charter
 Heuristics

15. ... what ...
... I know ... I don‘t know
I know...
Knowledge Ignorance
I don‘t know...
Unconcious Second order
knowledge ignorance

16. Thanks for listening!
Markus Gärtner
@mgaertne
Meike Mertsch
@meikemertsch
it-agile GmbH