Software Testing - Brief Introduction To Exploratory Testing

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Akhil it's good Today 3:29:00 AM
NileshParekh Hi N.P.REDDY,
Sorry for the late reply!
You can sure jump in any industry at any age... the only important point you should understand is: there may be times when you will have to adjust to situations (for e.g. less payment initially, study load due to late entry in this industry etc)
If you need any help... you can call me on +91 9764696566
Regards,
Nilesh		 10/11/2010
N.P.REDDY . Hey Mr.Nilesh ,
Namashkar, i need small info and i hope you would not mind to guide me through ...
Now i am at 34 and recently i have done my P.G(MCA) and i am not good at coding or soft ware developing , i have been in SALES & MARKETING, NOW I WOULD LIKE TO SWITCH OVER TO SOFT WARE,do you think i can come up in Testing Dep...
Thanks & Regards
t		 9/10/2010
N.P.REDDY Hi... !
Anyone can suggest me and help me out please... regards & thanks		 9/10/2010
N.P.REDDY . Hey Mr.Nilesh ,
Namashkar, i need small info and i hope you would not mind to guide me through ...
Now i am at 34 and recently i have done my P.G(MCA) and i am not good at coding or soft ware developing , i have been in SALES & MARKETING, NOW I WOULD LIKE TO SWITCH OVER TO SOFT WARE,do you think i can come up in Testing Dep...
Thanks & Regards
t		 9/10/2010
Alexander Hi,

Nice article. The only think I do not agree is statement "As exploratory testing covers almost all the normal type of testing, it helps in improving our productivity in terms of covering the scenarios in scripted testing and those which are not scripted as well.". I think that it could not be scripted or automated. We performed little quiz among test engineers of MassQA and we have found that nobody thinks that exploratory testing could be involved in automated or scripted testing. Please think over that and give me some examples.
I will really appreciate that.		 3/2/2010
Imran Thank you very much for the clear and precise articles. There are many articles out there on the same subjects but 'quality wise' I would give you highest marks .. 9/16/2008
Sheela.K And also I need the information about,How to test Mobile devices like Visiontek, Microfex,PDA, etc., 1/21/2008
Sheela.K Generally Is there any procedure for Mobile Testing? If it is there means,what kind of procedure is following for Mobile Testing?. 1/21/2008
Sheela.K Can u send me the Mobile Application Testing Documents? and Types of Mobile Testing etc. 1/21/2008
Sheela.K Hai Nilesh,
I studied ur testing documents. It's simply Superb. It's very simple and easily to understand.		 1/21/2008
parekhnileshp Hi Phillip,
You can reach me at nileshparekh at buzzle dot com

Regards,
Nilesh Parekh		 8/8/2007
parekhnileshp Hi Phillip,
Well ... this might be your opportunity to get on the top for a new practice (Testing) in your company.
First of all ... you should think of processes ... try to figure out what type of processes are needed in current environment ... for example ... baselining of documents ... testing strategies ... etc. (in short ... you need to think about base-lining various processes)

The most important part of setting up any verticle (Testing Practice/Verticle) ... is to have processes in place ... so try to first define the processes ... you may use documents from your previous company or any document for that matter for your referrence. (This is a kind of hectic work ... but its very very very important)

Secondly ... you will have to start working towards spreading Software Testing related awareness in your company ... that will help you in many ways!

Hopefully this will help you start your work ...

Regards,
Nilesh Parekh		 8/8/2007
Phil I just started at this company and they have thrown me into a department that has no process or procedures as far as testing are concerned. I would love to have some suggestions as far as how to start to even develop anything for this company. If you could give me some suggestions that would be most appreciated. I have worked for about 7 years in contract work in software testing and so far every company I have worked for has not cared for software testing. I am the only software tester that they have here at this company. The other QA person has not experience with software testing, and she really has no clue as to what to do either with software testing, so it really falls on my shoulders. Again if you can give me any suggestions as to how to approach this that would be greatly appreciated.



Thank you,



Phillip Dean
 8/7/2007
Venu Yalluri "Exploratory testing is the only type of testing that can help in uncovering bugs that stand more chance of being ignored by other testing strategies... " --- the same can be said of scripted testing too! ..... "only type" ?!? 7/19/2007
madhi The article is really simple and good. It is easy for understanding. 6/14/2007
abhilash.p Informative!!! 6/1/2007
Vikram Maratha This information about Exploratory Testing as given by Nilesh are very clear and well understandable.This help very much to understand the Exploratory testing. I give my best wishes to Nilesh for his future and hope he will give us more valueable information about testing. 1/1/2007
Michael Bolton You say above that exploratory testing is "a type of testing where we explore software, write and execute the test scripts simultaneously." It's important to note that, during exploratory testing, many tests may not be recorded or written down. That's at least in part because, at best, writing can only capture a fraction of the cognitive process of the tester.

Incidentally, another definition of exploratory testing is "simultaneous or parallel test design, test execution, and learning (with an emphasis on learning)". The interactive and investigative nature of this process is pivotal to improving test design.		 9/30/2006
Michael Bolton You say above that exploratory testing is "a type of testing where we explore software, write and execute the test scripts simultaneously." It's important to note that, during exploratory testing, many tests may not be recorded or written down. That's at least in part because, at best, writing can only capture a fraction of the cognitive process of the tester. 9/30/2006
Vinod Ganjre This is exact definition and advantages of exploratory testing it will definitely help test engg... thanks! 8/26/2006
Venkat Raju Dear Nilesh,

Thanks for good response, Nilesh I want know clear details about Testing Strategies with example Can you do it ,it will be great pleasure .
 8/26/2006
Daniels Read ur article about Exploratory Testing.Send more articles on testing.Like types of testing,Regression,integration ,system testing etc.
 8/16/2006
sunil murjani This article if full of info about explorator testing.

Can you send sample test cases for exploratory testing?
as well as website and look and feel testing?		 7/18/2006
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