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Exploratory Testing Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Exploratory testing methods

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Chaters

Timeboxed
Set time limit to avoid getting lost
design tests
BVA ,Decision Tables, state diagram etc
Execution
Execute right away
Question to answer
Intera­ction and test activities
Template
Target, Resour­ces­,In­for­mation
Should be inline
Implicit expect­action, goals, questi­ons­,ex­isting artifa­cts,new realiz­ations and discov­eri­es,­nig­htmares
Night mare headline game
Stage, headlines, big risk, causes, explore causes

Evaluate results

Never an Always
rules,must always work,i­lities
Core
customers and purpos­e,short sale pitch for it, altern­ative paths ,Must have features
Quality
Accura­cy,­Rel­iab­ility, Security, availa­bility, usability, access­ibility
Risks
Things that can harm customers
Approx­imation
range, charac­ter­istics, condit­ions, invert results

Variables

Out of steam questions
Review and ask more
beginning, middle, end
too big, too small, just right
some , none, call
starve resrouces
too soon, too late, too much, too little
wrong direction
right thing, wrong object
cut corner, restri­ctive, no long apply, careless
near miss, accident, latent failure
missing instru­ctions, interr­uption, ilogical design
 

Observ­ation

The details
Look past expect­ation and hope to find
Make invisible visible
Logs, consoles, storage alerts­,re­quests, network
Alert for subtle cues
Seeing ,hearing, touching

Variables

Obvious
Obvious and fractal in nature
Subtle
Not intended to be changed or used
Indirectly accessible
controlled indirectly
Identi­fying variables
count, position, format, files, storage, size, depth, timing, frequeny, duration, Input, navigation

Vary Sequences and Intera­ctions

Noun and verbs
choose random pair
Random navigaton
What are all ways formular for same action
Personas
Try imagining different user situations and skill levels