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Discover your Explorer Soul

Emna
November 29, 2022

Discover your Explorer Soul

Meet your hidden power of exploratory testing and add fun to your testing journey
Discover new ways to explore your product under test and use a funny way to reveal the unknown unknowns. Join us to complement your tester’s toolbox.

Albert Einstein once said, "I have no special talents, I'm just passionately curious." This quote is not only true for a world famous theoretical physicist but also for the guild of exploratory testers. Driven by curiosity and coffee (or another hot beverage of choice) an exploratory tester spends time with the software artifacts and tries to unlock the hidden gem, discover areas where no user has been before, and find the unknown unknowns that could bear a risk to the software under test. Common misconceptions make us believe that exploratory testing does not require skills. In this workshop we will help you unlock crucial traits that will help the tester in you to find those unknown unknowns hidden deep down in the software, forgotten or never revealed in any documentation. From theoretical introductions and concrete examples based on our experience, we are pleased to run some hands-on exercises with you. During the session we will help you train your brain and think outside the box so that you can meet the explorer in you. Let’s experience together how you can apply exploratory testing. You will find out how ideas and software can be discovered. Learn how you can apply and incorporate the learnings from the workshop in your everyday testing. Join us in the workshop and unlock your inner explorer.

Emna

November 29, 2022
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  1. Emna & Andrea

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  2. Emna Ayadi
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    Andrea Jensen

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  3. "I have no special
    talents, I'm just
    passionately curious."
    Albert Einstein
    © Arthur Sasse/AFP

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  5. Agenda
    Perform an
    Exploratory Testing
    Session
    with a Twist

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  6. Create your favorite
    Pizza with
    ‘Build a Pizza’
    How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?

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  7. Order
    Select
    Start

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  8. How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?
    ● Charter Template

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  9. How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?
    ● Charter Example

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  10. Define relevant Personas using the Personas Template

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  11. How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?
    Get in touch
    with your
    Senses

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  14. How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?

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  15. How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?
    Run through your Charters
    ● What is the expected outcome?
    ● What information can be revealed?
    ● Are new charters coming to your
    mind?

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  16. How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?

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  17. Past
    Results
    Obstacles
    Outlook
    Feelings
    What happened?
    What did you learn?
    What got in your way?
    What want you to explore next?
    How do you feel?
    How to perform an Exploratory Testing Session?

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  18. Session Feedback - Event Storming
    Run Exploratory testing
    session
    Questions
    Learning
    Feeling
    Design effective
    charters
    Include senses
    activation in the
    exploration
    Use the product map
    in the testing session
    Debrief based on
    learnings



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    Learn about the
    product mission

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  19. Thank you for your
    Feedback and
    Contribution!!
    Session Feedback - Event Storming

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  20. Resources
    Useful Resources for Exploratory Testing
    Book Explore It! by E. Hendrickson
    Video about Exploratory Testing by E. Hendrickson
    List for Test Ideas
    You are not done yet - by M.Hunter
    A really useful List for Exploratory Testers by S. Tomes
    Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet by Ministry of Testing
    Useful Articles & Videoa
    Why Ad-hoc Testing is not Exploratory Testing by C Akehurst Ryan
    What will come after Agile by M. Harris
    Curiosity Quotient by T. Chamorro-Premuzic
    Exploratory Testing basics by E. Ayadi
    Exploratory Testing | TMAP by Sogeti
    Basketball Awareness Test by A. Drozdovskis

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