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Exploratory testing is a powerful, creative approach to testing. See how you can boost your exploration skills further by using Heuristics!
Test Lead
What You'll Learn
By the end of this workshop you'll be able to:
- Describe what a heuristic is
- Know where to find useful resources testers can use as heuristics
- Apply using heuristics to a testing situation
- Correlate between heuristics and test ideas
About This 99-Minute Workshop
Exploratory testing is often described as 'playing around with the software', or 'ad-hoc testing'. It's thought to be unstructured, 'informal' and to some, even unreliable. However exploratory testing can be incredibly powerful. Unrestrained by the confines of a script we have more room to be creative, to think 'what if'.
We can't always think of all the test ideas we need naturally, so we can use heuristics to boost our test design skills. In this workshop, we'll look at what heuristics are, and use some example testing scenarios to try applying them.
Pre-requisites
We'll be using Miro to work on the exercises, so a Miro account would be useful.
Some experience with exploratory testing may be beneficial, but this is not essential.
Your Speaker
Claire Reckless
Test Lead
Claire is a Test Lead at MoneySuperMarket in Manchester, with prior experience in testing Financial and Security software.
A tester for over 10 years, she is active within the testing community, contributing articles, speaking at conferences including Testbash Manchester and Nordic Testing Days.