Exploring Exploratory Testing - Michael Bolton

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What is exploratory testing? As with so many things in testing, there's a lot of confusion around the concept. For years, exploratory testing was dismissed by some as "ad hoc", "undocumented", "unstructured", "experience-based". Others talk of exploratory testing in terms of chartered, time-boxed sessions. Still others wonder how exploratory testing fits with Agile, Scrum, and DevOps. Is exploratory testing is manual testing? How can you use it to test an API, or software as a service?

In this talk, Michael Bolton will offer the Rapid Software Testing perspective on exploratory testing. He'll trace some of the history of ideas about ET, dispel some common misunderstandings about it, and show how exploratory work is woven through all of your testing.

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Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people to solve testing problems that they didn't realize they could solve. He is the co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Michael has 25 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. For the last 18 years, he has led DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy. Prior to that, he was with Quarterdeck Corporation for eight years, during which he managed the company’s flagship products and directed project and testing teams both in-house and around the world.
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